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Title: EPPP Flashcards
Description: Amanda's flashcards for the EPPP Exam
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    • Question
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    • Side 3
    • Which theory of emotion is this?

      Emotions result from internal information (hypothalamus and limbic system) AND external information (context)
    • Schachter's Two-Factor Theory
    • Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome
    • model or response to severe stress, consisting of three stages: Alarm, Resistance, and Exhaustion
    • Aversive Counterconditioning is used to treat
    • maladaptive behaviors: smoking, excessive drinking, paraphilias
    • Criterion Contamination occurs when
    • Scores on the criterion are influenced by one's knowledge of predictor scores. Results in high criterion-related validity coefficient.
    • Halo effect is
    • generalizing from one characteristic of the person (ex: she is attractive) to other aspects (ex: she performs well at work)
    • Recency bias occurs when
    • Evaluations cover an extended period of time (ex: one yr) and the evaluator is most influenced by recent performance (ex: within last month).
    • Circadian clock is located in the
    • hypothalamus
    • Circadian clock is responsible for the
    • sleep-wake patterns
    • Circadian clock is the
    • suprachiasmic nucleus (SNA) - signals the pineal gland in the hypothalamus to produce melatonin, which causes drop in body temp and sleepiness
    • Reticular Activating System filters
    • incoming sensory information; can activate a person into a state of alert wakefulness
    • On the MMPI-2, the L Score measures
    • naive attempt to present favorably
    • On the MMPI-2, the F scale measures
    • infrequently endorsed items; can be used to assess overall distress and pathology, attempts to fake bad, or random responding
    • On the MMPI-2, VRIN and TRIN measure
    • inconsistency or random responding
    • The APA Ethics Code prohibits fee splitting between professionals when
    • the fee splitting is based on referrals. For example, a referral source receives 5% of a patient's on-going fees. Fee splitting is ok if it is based on services provided (ex: provision of supervision).
    • According to the APA Ethics Code, fee-splitting is permissible if it is based on
    • services provided
    • All standard error formulas express error in terms of ___ ___ units
    • standard deviation
    • Marcia's "foreclosure" state of adolescence can be described as
    • teen has made a commitment without having gone through a crisis
    • Marcia's "identity achievement" state of adolescence can be described as
    • teen has experienced an identity crisis and has made commitments to build sense of identity
    • Marcia's "moratorium" state of adolescence
    • teen is in a crisis but has not made a commitment
    • Marcia's "identity diffusion" stage of adolescence can be described as
    • lacks direction, absence of crisis and commitment
    • the standard error of the estimate is affected by which 2 variables?
    • the SD of the criterion and criterion-related validity
    • Wernicke's deals with what type of language?
    • Receptive - considered an APHASIA. Also called a sensory aphasia. Normal fluency, impaired comprehension.
    • Broca's deals with what type of language?
    • Expressive - considered an APHASIA. Also called a motor aphasia. Intact language comprehension, poor articulation.
    • Agnosia is
    • failure to recognize sensory stimuli
    • Aphasia is
    • a problem with speech
    • Construct validity looks at
    • how adequately a test measures an underlying hypothetical construct/trait
    • What does "behavioral contrast" mean and who coined the term?
    • Applies to the situation in which 2 behaviors are initially reinforced at equal levels and then one behavior stops being reinforced. The behavior that is no longer being reinforced decreases in frequency, while the behavior that continues to be reinforced increases in frequency. (this is all about reinforcement - SKINNER)
    • To minimize discrimination, employment testing has moved from standardized tests in the direction of
    • work sample tests
    • Alpha waves occur during
    • periods of relaxed wakefulness - especially just before falling asleep
    • Theta waves occur
    • just before falling asleep
    • Delta waves occur
    • in stages 3 and 4, are slow waves, and occur in the deepest, non-dreaming part of sleep
    • REM sleep is what type of sleep?
    • dreaming sleep - rapid eye movement, increased respiration and heart rate, relaxed muscle tone
    • Response cost occurs when
    • someone loses something for misbehavior (privileges, token) - it is an example of NEGATIVE PUNISHMENT
    • Negative reinforcement involves
    • removing something aversive (ex: a slap, shock) to increase behavior
    • Operant extinction involves
    • withholding reinforcement for a previously reinforced behavior
    • The range of the standard error of measurement is
    • 0 to SD of the test
    • The range of the validity coefficient is from
    • -1 to +1
    • The range of the reliability coefficient is from
    • 0 to +1
    • The range of the standard error of the estimate is from
    • 0 to the standard deviation of the criterion
    • Mediated generalization is another name for
    • stimulus generalization
    • Easiest way to calculate adverse impact:
    • Multiply hiring rate for non-minorities by .8
    • Job enrichment is
    • expanding jobs to give employees a greater role in planning and performing their work - partly based on Herzberg's 2-Factor Theory
    • Herzberg's 2-Factor Theory predicts
    • increasing employee's responsibility (a motivator) will result in increased satisfaction and performance
    • Vroom's Expectancy Theory asserts that
    • people behave in ways that are based on their perceived expectancy that certain rewards will follow
    • What is Equity Theory?
    • Based on the Social Comparison Theory - looks at the ratio of self inputs/self outcomes versus others' inputs/others' outcomes
    • Assimilation (Piaget)
    • Incorporating a new experience into an already established mental structure - child calling a bird a plane
    • Accomodation (Piaget)
    • Modifying or expanding a cognitive schema to take in new information
    • variable ratio is based on
    • unpredictable responses. ex: slot machines
    • fixed ratio is based on
    • same number of responses each time
    • interval schedules are based on
    • elapsed time
    • What is the self-serving bias?
    • Predicts the kinds of attributions we make for our successes (internal) vs our failures (external)
    • Respondant conditioning is the same thing as
    • Pairing an initially neutral stimulus with an aversive unconditioned stimulus (a classical conditioning phenomenon) Ex: Doritos with getting sick
    • Effect size is a measure of
    • SD
    • The average effect size found in recent psychotherapy outcome research is
    • .85 (meaning treated people do about .85 of a SD better than untreated individuals)
    • fundamental attribution error
    • people's tendency to make dispositional attributions about others' behavior
    • self-serving bias
    • people's tendency to make dispositional attributions for their success and situational attributions for their failure
    • Watson is associated with
    • classical conditioning
    • Skinner is associated with
    • reinforcement
    • Chi square
    • a non-parametric test of differences, used when data are nominal or categorical -- cannot be run when repeated observations are made (when data are collected pre and post)
    • What neurotransmitter is involved with anxiety, epilepsy, and schizophrenia?
    • GABA
    • A manager adhering to Theory Y assumes people are
    • creative and seek responsibility
    • Single subject designs involve what kind of approach?
    • Idiographic (any "idiot" can do them)
    • Group designs involve what kind of approach?
    • Nomothetic (nomads walk in groups)
    • What is DRO?
    • Differential reinforcement for other behaviors - combines operant extinction for an undesired behavior with reinforcement for a more appropriate behavior (ex: ignoring Moose when he whines; giving him a treat when he is quiet)
    • What is power?
    • the ability to correctly reject the null
    • What is Type II error?
    • BETA - incorrectly accepting the null hypothesis
    • what is job enlargement?
    • increasing the variety of tasks but not the responsibility
    • what is job enrichment?
    • increasing employees' responsibility and involvement
    • How do you determine if a stimulus is conditioned or unconditioned?
    • Ask yourself if the response to it is universal! Ex: does everyone get sexually stimulated when they see a shoe? No - so a shoe fetish is a conditioned stimulus
    • What is valence?
    • the importance that the individual places upon the expected outcome of a situation (Vroom's Expectancy Theory)
    • What is expectancy?
    • EXPECTING that your work will result in successful performance. EX - If I work harder, this will be better(Vroom's Expectancy Theory)
    • What is instrumentality?
    • Hard work will result in rewards (Vroom's Expectancy Theory)
    • Masters & Johnson's sensate focus is based on:
      counterconditioning
      aversive counterconditioning
      positive reinforcement
      negative reinforcement
    • Counterconditioning. A person learns a new response (pleasurable feeling) that is incompatible with a problematic response (performance anxiety)
    • What is aversive counterconditioning?
    • Pairing a pleasurable but problematic conditioned stimulus (ex: taste of alcohol) with a more powerful, aversive conditioned stimulus (ex: throwing up after taking Antabuse)
    • What is referent power?
    • Identifying with those who are role models (Paul)