APA’s position on prescription privileges for psychologists

for it

Name of the group that split off from APA in the late 80s 

The most common work setting for clinical psychologists

private practice

Name of the legal case synonymous with “duty to warn”

Tarasoff

Two common requirements for licensure after obtaining a doc degree

exam, postdoc exper

Name of famous paper asserting scientific basis for clinical psych

Manifesto for Sci of CP

Used to denote a correlation coefficient

ABAB is an example of this type of research design 

This is required of all psychological research involving deception

Useful way of combining results of multiple studies

Two ways to evaluate test bias

intercept bias, slope bias

Difference between within and between subjects designs

whether S receives all levels of IV

Average score on the WISC

Rorschach and TAT are examples

projective tests

The term used to describe the construction of the MMPI

empirical scale construction

Meehl’s term for when you should depart from an actuarial formula

broken leg case

It’s what SORC stands for

stimulus, organism, response, consequence

It’s scaled on the DSM from 0-100

What EST stands for

Empirically Supported Treatment

It could be considered a form of Sys Desens that starts at the TOP of the hierarchy

flooding

The effect observed when clients improve due to expectations 

placebo

Therapeutic support and client learning can be considered examples

common factors

DD: A form of psychodynamic therapy with substantial empirical support 

Technical term for obs that desired b can be reinf by b more attractive to c

Premack Principle

With expert testimony, it should never be contingent upon outcome of a case

payment

Head Start is an example of this kind of prevention program

primary

The two most commonly used fixed neuropsychological test batteries

Luria, Halstead-Reitan

The four lobes in the cerebral cortex

frontal, temporal, parietal, occipital

It states that judges may determine admissibility of expert testimony

Daubert criteria

Procedure st used in beh med contexts whose efficacy may be due to relaxation 

biofeedback

It involves challenging irrational thoughts

CBT/RET

It requires unconditional positive regard

client-centered therapy

It employs a “hot seat”

Gestalt therapy

It requires that a therapist eventually interpret unconscious thoughts/behaviors 

psychodynam

It refers to Child, Parent, and Adult ego states

Transactional Analysis