orbitofrontal damage - changes in personality and behavior, including mood lability, impulsivity, poor
social judgment, a lack of empathy, and poor insight into his own behavior. "Acquired sociopathy."
dorsolateral region (PFC) damage - produces dysexecutive syndrome,
mediofrontal damage - region produces apathetic-akinetic (lack in the ability to move) syndrome.
Conduction aphasia - is characterized by relatively intact comprehension with fluent speech that contains
many errors, anomia, and impaired repetition. It's caused by damage to the arcuate fasciculus, which
connects Wernicke's area to Broca's area.
standard error of measurement - is used to construct a confidence interval around an examinee's
obtained score. It's calculated by multiplying the test's standard deviation times the square root of 1
minus its reliability coefficient.
Increasing alpha from .01 to .05: - increases statistical power and the probability of making a Type I error.
Comparable worth procedures - Comparable worth is the principle that workers performing different
jobs that require the same skills and responsibilities or that are of comparable value to the employer
should be paid the same and has been applied primarily to the gender gap in wages. Comparable worth
procedures are often used to establish pay equity across different jobs that require similar abilities but
have traditionally been performed by men or by women.
According to Sherif and Hovland's (1961) social judgment theory, an "internal anchor" is: - A. a person's
attitude toward an issue prior to hearing a persuasive message about that issue.
,Social judgment theory is based on the assumption that the effectiveness of a persuasive message
depends on a person's current position (the person's internal anchor), and it distinguishes between
three "latitudes" that represent different degrees of similarity between the person's position and the
position advocated by a persuasive message. If you aren't familiar with the term "internal anchor," you
may have been able to identify this answer as the correct one using the process of elimination: Central
and peripheral routes (answer B) are addressed by the elaboration likelihood model, mental discomfort
caused by conflicting attitudes and a conflicting attitude and behavior (answer C) is addressed by
cognitive dissonance theory, and providing a person with weak arguments against his/her attitude and
counterarguments refuting those arguments (answer D) is relevant to the attitude inoculation
hypothesis.
goal of Jung's analytical psychotherapy - is to bring unconscious material into consciousness to facilitate
the process of individuation, which involves achieving individual "wholeness" (being a unique unified
person) by becoming conscious of and harmonizing the various parts of the psyche.
contralateral neglect - which is caused by damage to the parietal lobe (most often the right parietal
lobe). A person with this disorder neglects the side of his/her body opposite the location of the damage
and is unaware of objects on that side of his/her body.
When a predictor has a reliability coefficient of .64, you can conclude that its criterion-related validity
coefficient can be no larger than: - C .80. you need to know that a predictor's criterion-related validity
coefficient can be no larger than the square root of its reliability coefficient. When the predictor's
reliability coefficient is .64, this means it's validity coefficient can be no larger than the square root of
.64, which is .80.
The distribution of scores obtained by 200 college undergraduates on an introductory psychology final
exam is positively skewed. If the scores obtained by these students are converted to percentile ranks, the
resulting distribution will be:
C. flat (rectangular). - Percentile rank distributions are always flat regardless of the shape of the raw
score distribution because percentile ranks are evenly distributed throughout the range of scores: The
same number of scores fall between the percentile ranks of 1 and 10, 11 and 20, 21 and 30, etc.
The involuntary, jerky movements associated with Huntington's disease are caused by deterioration of
cells in which of the following? - C. globus pallidus
, According to Donn Byrne's (1971) law of attraction, we're most likely to be attracted to people who: - D.
provide us with more reinforcement than punishment.
Which of the following is not one of the required conditions for a claim of malpractice? - Four conditions
are required for a claim of malpractice: (a) The psychologist must have had a professional relationship
with the client that established the psychologist's duty to conform to a professional standard of care. (b)
There was a dereliction or breach of the duty on the part of the psychologist. (c) The client suffered
injury or harm as a result of this dereliction or breach. (d) The psychologist's dereliction or breach of
duty was the direct or proximate cause of the person's harm or injury. Negligence (answer C) is a
possible cause of a breach of duty (answer D) but it's not required for a claim of malpractice because a
breach of duty can be due other factors.
You receive a written request from a former client to send a copy of her file to another psychologist. The
client stopped coming to therapy six weeks ago and has not paid for her last two sessions even though
you've sent her a letter requesting that she do so. Being familiar with ethical guidelines for this situation,
you know that withholding a client's record for nonpayment of fees is:
A. always unethical when the record is needed for the client's treatment.
B. always unethical when the record is needed for the client's emergency treatment. - This answer is
most consistent with Standard 6.03 of the APA Ethics Code and Standards II.1 and II.2 of the Canadian
Code of Ethics. Standard 6.03 states that "psychologists may not withhold records under their control
that are requested and needed for a client's/patient's emergency treatment solely because payment has
not been received." (Note that withholding client records for nonpayment of fees in any situation may be
illegal or inconsistent with institutional regulations, but this question is asking specifically about ethical
guidelines.)
Overlearning is most useful for: - A. skills and knowledge that will be used frequently on-the-job.
B. skills and knowledge that will be used infrequently on-the-job
The term "shrinking retrograde amnesia" refers to:
A. the tendency of remote long-term memories to be affected more than recent memories by a head
injury. - D. the return of older long-term memories before more recent long-term memories following a
head injury that caused retrograde amnesia.
A job applicant's score on a job knowledge test is used to predict what her future score on a measure of
job performance will be if she's hired. If the applicant's predicted job performance score is 75, the
measure of job performance has a standard deviation of 6, and the standard error of estimate is 4, the
95% confidence interval for the applicant's predicted score of 75 is:
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