Abnormal and Clinical
Name at least three examples of positive symptoms of schizophrenia.
What is hallucinations, delusions, confused thoughts, disorganized speech, trouble concentrating, and movement disorders?
What percentage of scores falls between one standard deviation above the mean and one standard deviation below the mean?
What does IRB stand for?
What is the Institutional Review Board?
Who developed psychoanalysis?
Who is Sigmund Freud?
Who is regarded as the “founding father” of psychology?
Who is Wilhelm Wundt?
What type of therapy treats anxiety by utilizing techniques such as journaling and thought records, as well as cognitive restructuring?
What is cognitive behavioral therapy?
What are operational definitions?
Define a double-blind study.
What is a study in which neither the participants nor the experimenters know how is receiving the treatment and who is receiving the placebo?
Which school of thought believed that the emphasis in psychology should be on observable behavior and that human behavior could be fully understood by examining the relationship had between stimuli and responses?
What is behaviorism?
Who founded the second school of thought, functionalism?
Who is William James?
What clinical assessment method was created the most recently?
What is the NEO-PI-R, which was developed in 1978?
Name the four scales of measurement.
What is nominal, ordinal, interval, and ratio?
Why is the peer review process important?
What is it determines the validity, quality, and originality of the article before it is published and helps to filter out any invalid or low-quality articles from being published?
Which person (patient) helped psychologists as well as doctors reveal a connection between the personality and the brain, specifically that personality is centered in the frontal lobe?
Who is Phineas Gage?
Who was behind and advocated for the mental hygiene movement?
Who is Dorothea Dix?
Who aided in developing the concept of linguistic relativity?
Who is Benjamin Lee Whorf?
Which scale of measurement is weight an example of?
What is ratio?
What is a type of experimental design where two or more variables are manipulated at the same time or observed together to study their influence together?
Name three psychologists who contributed to industrial and organizational psychology.
Who is James Cattell, Hugo Munsterberg, Walter Dill Scott, Robert Yerkes, Walter Bingham, Lillian Gilbreth?
Who founded the fifth school of thought, Gestalt psychology?
Who is Fritz Perls?
Name all six types of delusions, especially experienced in schizophrenia.
What is persecutory, referential, somatic, erotomaniac, religious, and grandiose?
Define a z-test.
What is a statistical test that compares the means of two samples to figure out whether or not there is a significant difference between the two samples?
What is the difference between reliability and validity?
What is reliability shows how consistent a test is (whether or not it can produce the same results time after time) and validity shows how well the scores represent the variable that they are intended to measure?
Which leadership style is linked to high productivity, strong contributions from the whole group, and better morale throughout?
What is democratic leadership?
Name both researchers who developed the MMPI.
Who is Starke Hathaway and J.C. McKinley?