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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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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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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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Which demographics are most related to suicide? |
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Infant tests of intelligence are good predictors... |
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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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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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What percentage of intellectual disabilities are prenatal in origin? |
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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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Stuttering is diagnosed after the age of ___; what percentage of children recover? |
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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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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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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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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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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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What percentage of males with OCD are diagnosed before the age of 10? |
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What percentage of those with OCD have suicidal thoughts? |
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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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What is the age of onset of rumination disorder? |
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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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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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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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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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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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