Human Growth & Development
This view suggests that nature and nurture interact and both play critical roles in development.
epigenetics
According to Adler, _______ tend to excel in their pursuits but are often spoiled and lack social skills comparable to those of other children.
only children
This process ensures the appropriateness of member and group fit.
Group screening
This type of test assesses what a person is capable of learning in an attempt to predict how well an individual will perform in the future.
Aptitude tests
In this type of study, neither participants nor the researcher know if participants belong to the experimental or control group.
double blind study
This model utilizes a systems perspective to understand the interactions between individuals and their environments, which consist of various social structures - microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.
Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model
Robert Wubbolding created this system for applying the principles of reality therapy to clinical practice.
WDEP system
This is a way of understanding how information is known and shared in groups, particularly along the lines of what is known and unknown to self and known and unknown to others.
the Johari window
This clinical assessment is used to identify adult psychopathology and assist in the diagnosis of mental disorders.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory-2 (MMPI-2)
This threat to internal validity may occur due to changes in a participant over time that affect the dependent variable.
maturation
This theorist developed a morality development model that attends to women's struggle between self and other orientations.
Carol Gilligan
Genuineness and congruence, respect and unconditional positive regard, and empathy are what according to Rogers' Client-Centered Counseling.
core counseling conditions
This type of group allows members to enter and leave at various points while continuing a primary group focus.
open groups
This is used by professional counselors to obtain a snapshot of a client's mental symptoms and psychological state.
Mental Status Exam (MSE)
This research design involves examining how an independent variable affects a dependent variable by assessing whether one or more pre-existing conditions possibly caused differences in groups.
ex post facto research design
causal-comparative design
This learning principle states that when a response (R) is accompanied by a stimulus (S) that is followed by a satisfying reward, a connection is made, and the response is likely to be repeated.
Thorndike's Law of Effect
This is used in SFBT to keep track of client' progress and help them make small changes.
Scaling questions
This stage of group development is defined by boundary testing and testing of power structures.
transition stage (Erford)
storming stage (Tuckman)
conflict (Yalom)
This is the process of altering a test for a population that differs significantly from the original test population in terms of cultural background and language.
test adaptation
This refers to an asymmetrical distribution with data points that do not cluster symmetrically around a mean.
skewness
Explain classical conditioning.
Pair neutral stimulus with a unconditioned stimulus to elicit a conditioned response to a now conditioned stimulus.
In Bowen's family system's therapy, this refers to peoples ability to separate themselves from their family of origin without cutting themselves off from their families.
This group dynamic involves the interplay of forces or dynamics between and among members and leaders - how the interaction is occurring in the here and now.
Group process issues
These assess personality factors by interpreting a client's response to ambiguous stimuli. Examples include the Rorschach Inkblot Test and the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT).
Projective Personality Tests
This type of qualitative research is an inductive approach that is intended to generate theory that is rooted in data from participants' perspectives for a particular phenomenon.
grounded theory research