Asian Americans

 structured logical approach to therapy

African Americans

egalitarian collaborative approach to therapy

Native Americans

Non-directive approach to therapy

Stress Inoculation Traning Stages

1. Conceptualizatin, education or cognitive phase

2.Skills application training, skills acquisition, rehersal phase

3. Appication and follow through phase

Compressed work week on job outcomes

Have effects on supervisior ratings, employee satisfaction and overall employee satisfaction

Atypical Antipsychotics

Risperdal/Risperidone

Clozapine/Clozaril   

are seratonin-dopamine antagonist ( block the reuptake of  seratonin and dopanine)

Kuder Richardson 20

• a measure of internal consistency
• can be used when items are scored dichotomously
• if the coefficient is .98 the items are siminal (homogeneous)

Fechner's Law

logarithmic (non linear) increase

Psychologist's Role in Forensic Evaluations

Neutral, detached and objective

Bipolar II Disorder

Hx of MDD or Hyponamic Episodes

Alcohol

Increased life time risk for MDD is among those aged 45-64

Semantic Bootstraping

a children's own language of the meaning of a  word to infer their grammatical category

Moderator Variable

a charasteristic that distinguishes the group (e.g. race, gender)

Incremental Validity

Low seleciton ration, moderate base rate=incremental validity

Social Loafting

predicts that people will work less hard in a group than alone

Memory over the life time

• 5 yr-6yr- do not use rehersal memory skills
• 6yr-use of rehersal skills, but do not generalize
• 9yr- 10yr- use of memory strategies, elaboration and organization

Borderline Peronality Disorder

• most common in people 19-34
• 15-year follow-up, there’s substantial improvement
• most personality disorders show improvement later in life.

Histrionic Personality Disorder

• Seductiveness
• attention seeking bx
• exaggerated emotions (e.g. Jim Carey)

Primary Memory

Short Term Memory

Secondary Memory

Long-term Memory

it is most affected by age and it is believed to be due to reduced use of memory strategies

Anomia

Inability to name objects

damage to the Wernicke's Area

it causes deficits in laguage comprehension and production

(impressive is another name) 

Chi Square

Highly Sensitive to Sample Size

If you are designing a test to identify depressed patients from a group of clinically depressed patients you are assessing the tests's?

Sensitivity

Dementia due to HIV is characterized by

apathy, social withdrawl, and psychomotor slowing

Steven's Power Law

Psychological magnitude of sensation is proportional to the power of the simulus producing it

Alpha

Type 1 error

Beta

Type II error

Transcortical Aphasia

significant difficulties producing and comprehending speech

Adler

People are motivated by the need to belong (social interest)

form quality=reality testing

confamulation overgeneralization=MR, brain damage, or emotional disturbance

Goal-Setting Theory

Moderately difficult goals and specific increase level of performance

Self set goals increases goal commitment for ppl. high in need of achivment vs. assigned goals increase goal commitment for ppl. low in need for achivment

The ability for whites to develop a healthy racial identify

is closely related to the extent of racism in society

In vivo expousure, response prevention (flooding/actual stimulus), and implosive therapy (imagery) are all based on

Classical extinction

Fictitious Disorder

 is characterized by playing the sick role, best treatment is supporitve psychotherapy in an outpatient setting

Zeigarnik Effect

the tendency to remember unfinished tasks

it is prone to happen more under nonstreful situations

Crowding

Lab Studies=crowding is more detrimental for males

Dormitory Studies=females use less effective coping strategies than males in crowded situations

Illusiory Correlation

seeing a correlation between two unrelated events (e.g. "Every time I plan a picnic, it rains")

multiple base line designs

involves sequentially applying a treatment accross two or more base lines, participants, settings and behaviors

Advantage-it does not require the researcher to remove the tx once applied for the duration of the study.

Multiple Regression

Prediction

square of r-coefficient of multiple determination

it is used to determine if positive or negative the predictor has on sig. effect on the proportion of variability in Y that has been explained by the predictors

Structural Equation Modeling

Casual (predictive) influence of multiple latent factors

Expermenter Expectancy Effects

when a researcher double checks the results that do not confirm the hypothesis