Diagnostic Criteria & Stuff
Lifespan Development
Anatomy and Physiology
Stats, Research, Assessment Oh My!
Theories and Orientations
100

This psychotic disorder ranges in duration from one day to one month

What is Brief Psychotic Disorder

100

A model which consists of the microsystem, mesosystem, exosystem, macrosystem, and chronosystem.

What is Bronfenbrenner's Ecological Model?

100

The CNS is made up of these two organs.

What are the brain and spinal cord?

100

The most common data collection method that is cheap and easy to accomplish but often weak in reliability and validity.

What is self-report?

100

The goals of this type of therapy are to bring the unconscious into conscious awareness and integrate repressed material into the personality.

What is Freudian psychoanalysis?

200

This specifier would be used for a temporal relationship between the onset of a mood disorder and a particular time of year.

What is seasonal pattern?

200

This chromosomal disorder is caused by an extra 21st chromosome.

What is Down Syndrome?

200

This neurotransmitter is associated with Parkinson's Disease

What is dopamine

200

 These variables affect the strength or direction the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.

What are moderators?

200

OARS is an acronym for open-ended questions, affirmations, reflections, and summaries which are techniques used in this therapy modality.

What is motivational interviewing?

300

This symptom often involves loosening of associations manifested as incoherence, answers that are unresponsive to questions, and slipping off track from one topic to another

What is disorganized thinking

300

Exposure to this teratogen during pregnancy can increase the risk for miscarriage and premature birth, lead to excessively irritable and reactive babies, and increase risk of learning disabilities and behavioral problems during the early school years.

What is cocaine?

300

This part of the hind brain regulates automatic responses such as breathing and heart rate.

What is the medulla oblongata?

300

This threat to internal validity can occur when there are substantial lengths of time (months or years) between measurements of the DV after the IV has been administered in an experiment.

What is maturation?

300

This type of therapy targets at least one of the four areas: unresolved grief, role disputes, role transitions, and interpersonal deficits.

What is interpersonal therapy (IPT)?

400

This is the best diagnosis for a 18 year old student who was referred for not acting like themself over the past couple weeks including being disruptive in class by talking a lot and loudly to classmates, being distracted easily, a lack of sleep, a large increase in drinking, and no longer turning in any assignments.

What is Bipolar I disorder?

400

Enrolling your athletic child in sports is an example of this type of genotype-environment correlation.

What is passive?

400

Damage to this part of the brain can cause ataxia.

What is the cerebellum?

400

According to Spearman's 2-factor theory, performance on a cognitive task consists of these two things.

What is g (general intelligence) and s (specific factors unique to a task)?

400

The empty chair technique and dream work are techniques commonly used in this type of therapy.

What is Gestalt therapy?

500

The concordance rate for schizophrenia among monozygotic twins

What is 48%?

500

This early reflex refers to the tendency for a baby's toes to fan out when the soles of their feet are tickled.

What is the Babinski reflex?

500

Damage to this part of the prefrontal cortex causes impairment in judgement, planning, and organization.

What is the dorsolateral area?

500

This phenomenon refers to the consistently observed increase in IQ scores for approximately 70 years (3 point increase per decade).

What is the Flynn Effect?

500
Detouring, stable coalition, and triangulation are rigid triads in this type of family therapy.

What is structural family therapy?