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08/08/2015

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A researcher is interested in relationship between morality and criminal behavior. He defines morality as going to church. This is called
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Criterion deficiency
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Extreme social neglect or deprivation may lead to which DSM 5 diagnoses?
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Disinhibited social engagement disorder or reactive attachment disorder
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What diagnosis involves fear of social situations when one is scared of scrutiny by others?
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Social anxiety disorder
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What was the outcome of Griggs vs. Duke Power (1971)?
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Helped define the selection of tests used in industry.
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A researcher is interested in how well IQ predicts success in high school. The SEM is
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The average amount of error in calculating the IQ scores.
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What area of the WISC would a child with otitis media most have difficulty with?
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VCI. Otitis media is chronic ear infections.
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Interval recording is used when
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there is no determined beginning, middle, or end of the behavior.
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Night terrors typically remit in
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adolescence. Most common from 3-12
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Empirical criterion keying is used to
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Discriminate among various criterion groups.
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Schizoaffective disorder is
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concurrent presence of a major mood episode with symptoms of schizophrenia; delusions or hallucinations for at least two weeks without mood symptoms.
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What is the difference between malingering and factitious disorder?
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Malingering is faking symptoms of some form of compensation. Factitious is intentionally faking physical and psychological symptoms.
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The presence of daytime sleepiness, episodes of loss of muscle tone associated with intense emotion, any hypoogogic hallucinations is associated with what?
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Narcolepsy
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Which demographics are most related to suicide?
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White, male, middle SES
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Infant tests of intelligence are good predictors...
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for low scorers
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What does scale L and F indicate on the MMPI-2?
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naive attempt to look good, lack of distress or pathology
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What is the basis of Schein's career model?
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Career anchors
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According the the DSM 5, what is the rate of MDD in men to women?
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1:1.5-3, equal in prepubertal boys and girls
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Taylor-Russell tables demonstrate to optimize incremental validity you want
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a base rate of .5 and a selection rate of .1
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What is diagnostic overshadowing?
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Bias that occurs when diagnosing people with intellectual disabilities or other developmental disabilities with other comorbid disorders
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Item response theory is based on what?
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When test varies in difficulty, uniform scales of measurement can be applied to persons of varying ability levels
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What is it called when a rating on one set of items affects the ratings on others?
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Halo effect
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What percentage of intellectual disabilities are prenatal in origin?
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75%
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How many more times do people with intellectual disability have a comorbid disorder compared to the general population, and what is the male to female rate?
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3 to 4 times, 1.5:1
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Stuttering is diagnosed after the age of ___; what percentage of children recover?
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2; 65-85%
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What is the difference between ASD and Rett syndrome?
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Rett syndrome has a deceleration of symptoms, usually able to improve social communication and autistic features are no longer a concern
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What is an evidence-based treatment for adults with ADHD?
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CBT
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Most children with ___ have ADHD although most children with ADHD don't have ____
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disruptive mood dysregulation disorder
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Dyslexia is what?
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Problems with accurate or fluent word recognition, poor decoding, and poor spelling
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SLDs occur how often in males versus females?
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2-3:1
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What is the difference between developmental coordination disorder and stereotypic movement disorder?
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Developmental is daily motor coordination activities, steretypic is repetitive and non-functional
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What is the difference between Tourette's, Persistent motor or vocal tic disorder, and Provisional tic disorder.
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Tourette's includes multiple motor tics and one or more verbal tics present for 1 year or more, Persistent is a does not include both motor or verbal tics, provisional is less than 1 year. All need to have onset before 18.
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How long should delusions last to be diagnosed with delusional disorder and what are the types?
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1 month, erotomanic, grandiouse, jealous, persecutory, somatic, mixed, and unspecified. Persecutory occurs most often
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How long does a brief psychotic disorder last?
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1 day to 1 month
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How is schizophreniform disorder different than schizophrenia?
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Onset is at least 1 month but less than 6 months
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MRI studies of schizophrenia show what?
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Enlargement of lateral and third ventricle, smaller cerebral cortex, smaller thalmus
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What is the median age of GAD onset?
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30 years
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What percentage of males with OCD are diagnosed before the age of 10?
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25%
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What percentage of those with OCD have suicidal thoughts?
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50%
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What is body dysmorphic disorder?
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Person is preoccupied with one or more perceived deficits
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What is the recovery time for those with PTSD?
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50% recover within 3 months, for others symptoms can last more than 50 years
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Illness anxiety disorder occurs more often in which gender and somatic symptom disorder occurs with who more often?
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Equal for Illness anxiety disorder; females for somatic symptom disorder
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Munchausen syndrome is a severe presentation of what?
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Factitious disorder
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What is the age of onset of rumination disorder?
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3 to 12 months
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What are the prevalence characteristics of anorexia nervosa?
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Begins in adolescence or young adulthood, earlier onset is associated with shorter duration of illness, 10:1 female to male ratio. Family treatment is best strategy
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What are the characteristics of bulimia nervosa?
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Associated with childhood obesity, early pubertal maturation, low self-esteem, and childhood sexual or physical abuse
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What is enuresis?
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Repeated voiding of urine, 2x a week for at least 3 months for children at least 5 years of age. Urine alarm is best form of treatment
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What is the evidence-based treatment for encopresis?
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There is none
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What therapies are most useful to treat insomnia?
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CBT is most effective, sleep restriction, stimulus control, and relaxation are also used.
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What is hypersomnolence disorder?
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Excessive sleepiness despite getting at least 7 hours of sleep.
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What is the most common breathing-related sleep disorder?
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Obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea
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What are the two types of non-rapid eye movement sleep arousal disorders?
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Sleepwalking and sleep terror
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When do sleepwalking and sleep terrors occur?
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Usually in the first third of the night.
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What is nightmare disorder?
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Frequent nightmares that usually occur during second half of the night. Detailed, frightening dreams about threats to survival
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What are the characteristics and prevalence of gender dysphoria?
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Needs to be 6 months in duration, male to female ratio of 2-3:1; onset typically between 2 and 4, late-onset occurs during puberty and is very rare in females
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What are the prevalence characteristics of ODD?
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More common in families with inconsistent caregiving or with harsh, inconsistent child-rearing. Male to female ratio 1.4:1
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What are some of the characteristics of conduct disorder?
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Suicide attempts and completions are higher, common comorbidity with ADHD and ODD. Poor prognosis with early onset (before 10); usually remit by adulthood but a substantial number of people develop antisocial personality disorder
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What are the three types of substance-induced disorders?
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substance intoxication, substance withdrawal, substance/medication-induced mental disorders
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Can alcohol withdrawal be fatal?
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Yes
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How can caffeine intoxication be differentiated from an anxiety disorder?
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Diuresis (excessive urination)
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What is hallucinogen persisting perception disorder?
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Reexperiencing perceptual symptoms that were experienced while intoxicated. May last weeks, months, or years
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What is the primary clinical deficit of a neurocognitive disorder?
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An acquired decline rather than a developmental disorder
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What is the prognosis of delirium?
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Majority recover especially with treatment. Untreated, may progress to coma, seizures, or death
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What are cluster A personality disorders?
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Paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal
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What are cluster B personality disorders?
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Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic
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What are cluster C personality disorders?
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Avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive
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What is the difference between schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders?
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Schizoid is indifferent to social relationships while schizotypal has discomfort and reduced capacity with them.
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What is an ipsative score?
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Provides information on a person's strengths and weaknesses only, e.g., vocational preference test
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Thurstone believed in how many distinct mental abilities?
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7
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What theory of intelligence proposes there are three aspects of intelligence, internal components, the capacity to adapt to the environment, and ability to apply past knowledge to current problems?
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Sternberg's Triarchic Theory
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How does education and SES affect the VCI and PRI scores?
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Those with higher education will often have a stronger VCI than PRI but those from lower SES may have stronger PRI than VCI
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What are good hold tests on the Wechsler scales?
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Vocabulary and Information. They are good indicators of pre-morbid functioning
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What are the three validity scales of the MMPI-2?
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L-Lie scale, high score means they are lieing

F-Infrequency scale, high score occurs in less than 10% of population, indicates psychotic processes or high levels of distress

K-Guardedness scale, high score means respondent is trying to portray themselves in a positive light
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What does the Masculanity-Femininity scale on the MMPI-2 measure?
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Male low scorers are high in masculinity, female high scorers are high in masculinity
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What does the psychasthenia scale on the MMPI-2 measure?
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Fears, anxieties, obsessions, compulsions
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