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Research Designs
Pinky & the Brain (well, really just the Brain)
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Program Goals
Development Milestones
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Alliant International University is a non-profit, private school. This is the full name of the association of colleges that accredits the university, commonly referred to as WASC.
What is the Western Association of Schools and Colleges?
100
A Clinical PsyD dissertation usually consists of five general sections that follow the common format of scientific experimental reporting: an introduction to the current research, a review of the research literature, a presentation and analysis of the data results, a discussion of the current research findings, and this section, which includes a description of the measures used to measure dependent variables.
What is a Method section?
100
Damage to this neurological structure can cause ataxia, a condition involving slurred speech, severe tremors, and a loss of balance. It is Latin for "little brain."
What is the cerebellum?
100
The Program Goal of Relationship is directed at building and maintaining constructive collaboration with clients, colleagues, and members of the community. This Program Goal is directed at developing an appreciation of how a student's own culture and the cultures of others serve as mediators of one’s world view.
What is Diversity?
100
Newborns have common innate early behavioral responses to external stimuli. In one such response, babies will quickly move their legs and arms close into their body, when they perceive a lack of physical support or a sudden, loud noise. Moro and Startle are the some names given to this type of innate, automatic behavioral response.
What is a reflex?
200
In a timeline approved by the Commission of Accreditation CoA, the Sacramento Clinical PsyD separated from this sister-site location.
What is Fresno?
200
This graphical depiction of the causal relationships between the resources, activities, outputs, and outcomes of a program is used often in program evaluations.
What is a logic model?
200
The amygdala is a brain structure found in the limbic system that is responsible for coordinating emotional and motivational activities. The amygdala is involved in the recall of emotionally-charged experiences. However, the task of converting short-term to long term (declarative) memories is associated more with this associated limbic structure.
What is the hippocampus?
200
Students have many ways of showing competency in the Program Goal of Research and Evaluation. One major way of showing that this competency is met is by drafting and defending one of these.
What is a dissertation?
200
In Bronfenbrenners's Ecological Model, development potential is determined by interaction of the individual and the environment in five contextual systems. One level of interaction is with the broader community, known as the exosystem. This term describes the system containing factors that cause interactions between components in the microsystem.
What is the mesosystem?
300
The Clinical PsyD program in Sacramento, once separately accredited from the Fresno Clinical PsyD program, will remain a part of this School within Alliant International University.
What is the California School of Professional Psychology?
300
This type of research methodology does not seek to generalize findings, but rather to understand better the individual experience.
What is qualitative research?
300
Research has suggested that the right and left hemispheres of the brain do not function identically, although they contain similar structures. For example, the left brain seems to be primarily responsible for verbal memory and positive emotions, whereas the right side's role is to recognize faces and process negative emotions. This quality of hemispheric specialization is usually referred by a specific term.
What is brain lateralization?
300
Students in the Sacramento Clinical PsyD program demonstrate competence in Research and Evaluation, a Program Goal, through the dissertation process, practicum evaluations, and course grades. Students demonstrate competence in the Goal of Foundational Sciences, on the other hand, by the successful completion of specific courses, each followed by this type of exam.
What is a Foundational Science Exam?
300
The chronic use of this teratogen up to the sixth week of prenatal development is associated with damage to brain structures resulting in cognitive impairment. Excessive exposure to this teratogen may cause a medical condition that is characterized by heart and liver defects, learning disabilities, visual and hearing impairments, and characteristic facial abnormalities.
What is alcohol?
400
On the average, students in Sacramento's Clinical PsyD program take a little more than 4 years to graduate. 97% of students graduate within 5 years. Program requirements include this for the final year of a students program.
What is a full-time internship at an APA-accredited or APPIC- or CAPIC-membership site?
400
Time effects are important factors to consider in a study where the same participants are given a measure before and after the IV is introduced. This within-subjects research design is also known by a another name designating the fact that it uses measures more than once.
What is a Repeated Measures design?
400
Each hemisphere of the brain contains four lobes. This specific lobe contains the somatosensory cortex; electrical stimulation of this lobe will elicit reports of warmth, tingling, and sensations in different parts of the body.
What is the parietal lobe?
400
Many Program Goals include competencies related to psychotherapy. The Intervention Goal, for example, addresses students' preparation to plan, implement and evaluated their therapeutic endeavors within a cultural framework, using multiple methods with diverse populations. This relatively new oral examination is designed to measure clinical competency in 2nd year students.
What is the Clinical Proficiency Progress Review (CPPR)?
400
Kohlberg developed a theory in which he hypothesized three stages in the development of principles: the first stage consisted of directing a right course of action based on assessment of consequence. What is the name conventionally given for the capacity to understand and act in accordance with principles of correct behavior?
What is morality?
500
This is the minimum number of years required to be in residence at Alliant International University in the Clinical PsyD program (as prescribed by APA).
What is 3?
500
Researchers want to learn the impact of television viewing on grades. Researchers discover that as the number of hours spent watching television increase, grades decrease. This is the common psychological research method that these researchers will most likely employ.
What is correlational research method?
500
Located in the hindbrain adjacent to the pons, this brain structure coordinates vital body functions, including blood pressure and breathing. Extensive damage to this structure is more than likely fatal.
What is the medulla?
500
The Goal of Professional Development is directed at developing an appreciation of the need to maintain a flexibility and critical, reflective evaluation in the practice of psychology. The Goal of Professional Practice aims at developing a clear understanding of appropriate professional roles. This is the full name for the body on campus, composed of students, staff and faculty, that evaluates complaints that students are not following the ethical guidelines of their profession?
What is the Professional Standards Review Committee (PSRC)?
500
The Rosenthal effect was demonstrated in a study of randomly assigned groupings of bloomers and non-bloomers. Bloomers at the end of this study were found to have higher IQ scores, apparently due to differences in instructional expectations and engagement. This is the common term for this effect.
What is a self-fulling prophecy?