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What Neurotransmitters low in Depression Serotonin
Norepinephrine
Difference between Critical period vs Senstive Period Critical = time limited period
Sensitive = Optimal time
When is stranger anxiety most intense for an infant Starts at 8 to 10months
Most intense = 18 months
Techniques of Solution Focused Family Therapy Brief Therapy by Steve de Shazer and Insoo Berg. ...
SE of Benzodiazepam withdrawal Sweating
tremors
insomnia
bizarre visual hallucinations
SE of Anabolic Steroid Use acne
edema
mood lability
aggressiveness
SE of Hyperthyroidism STING
Sweating
Tremor / Tachycardia
Intolerance to heat, irritability, irregular menstruation
Nervousness
Goiter / GI (loose stool/diarrhea)
Raven’s Progressive Matrices Developed for Spearman g
Kenneth Clark Doll Study
2/3 AfA preferred white dolls and brown dolls were “bad”
Used in Brown vs. ...
Neurotransmitters in Anorexia and Bulimia Low serotonin and low NE
Imipramine and Prozac (SSRI) used to treat Bulimia
Wernicke vs Broca’s vs Conduction Aphasia Conduction Aphasia – frequently cannot repeat words. ...
Resistant – distress when mother leaves, avoids her when she returns
Disoriented – fluctuate between avoidant an resistant; apprehensive & confused
Secure
Threat to Internal Validty
Selection vs Maturation Maturation eg. ... MMPI K scale
Social Phobia vs Agoraphobia Social phobia avoid due to fear of humiliation and embarrassment (as does agoraphobia but agoraphobia is not limited to 1 or a few situations)
Trusted companion increases anxiety for social phobia; not so for agoraphobia
Normal aging and Episodic, Procedural, Semantic Memory Episodic most impacted
Less so for Semantic (words and rules) and Procedural
Neurotransmitter in Tourette’s Dopamine
Antipsychotics lower the dopamine level. ...
EMDR
Carbamazepine vs Lithium Carbemazepine (Tegretol) anticonvulsant
Faster onset
requires plasma blood level monitoring
Can cause severe dermatological reactions
More effective for rapid cycling or dysphoric mania
Third week of prenatal development and vulnerability to teratogens Beginning 3rd week – CNS
Middle 3rd week = Heart
Statistical Selection Bias Compare regression line slopes
What does young and elderly think cause of memory loss in elderly is due to? ...
Avoidance gradient is greater than approach gradient
WISC-III Performance vs Verbal IQ discrepancy 12 pts is significant
But if there is wide scatter of the Verbal and/or Performance subtest scores then it is meaningless. ...
Best predictor of adaptation in old age Health
WISC III
Perceptual-motor subtests block design
object assembly
Suicide rates and age
completers and non-completers Noncompleters = 25-44
completers = Elderly >65
Vgotsky language is social
Piaget language is internal cognitive structures and schemas
% of Alcohol Dependence with complications from Alcohol Withdrawal 5%
Seizures and delirium
Concordance rates for ADHD 0. ...
Complex stats formula
tenure in jobs
SD of dollar vs job performance
cost to implement
Defense mechanism in OCD Reaction Formation
I have no control so I am going to control it (opp)
Mental Disorder prevalence in Elderly >65 Lower than older groups
Except for dementia
3 Factors of Hypnosis Absorption – engrossed in central experience
Dissociation – Alteration in consciousness/memory
Suggestibility – Less inhibited
Piaget Inductive Reasoning Reasoning from particular fact to a general rule. ...
Gender rates for Major Depressive Disorder 2 ½ females to 1 male
What sxs must Postcussional Disorder have as a minimum Attention and memory problems
Side effects TCAs vs SSRI SSRI less SE
Functional Disorder Old term
Not physiological caused
Social Inhibition in Infants 10% of infants
2-4 months are evident
high levels of negative affect and motor activity (to novel stimuli)
Cleary Model of test unfairness Slope and y intercept is different between groups.
Brainstorming group ideas vs individuals Fewer ideas and lower quality in groups
Bandura’s Modeling 4 processes attention
retention
reproduction
motivation (can be self reinforcing)
Mere exposure is not sufficient still need to attend to it, reproduce it. ...
Unfairnes
Which headache is exacerbated by jarring movement Migraines
Freedom from Distractibility subtests on WISC-III Arithmetic
digit span
STM, distractibility , concentration
Expressive style vs referential style
Child language acquisition Referential style
content names and object names to describe world
spurts of language growth
Expressive
words to regulate interaction with adults
less clear
More boys or later born children
IPT focus on interpersonal relationships
Other factors:
Contributors to symptoms
Personality
Alzheimers vs Korsakoff
Diagnostic Difference Alzheimer’s Dementia
Memory loss + cognitive impairments
Korsakoff (Amnestic disorder)
Memory loss only
Threats to external validity Interaction between selection and treatment
2 Types of criterion-related validity predictive –future status
Concurrent –current status
Personality xteristics of Migraine folks Obsessive
suppress anger
Meichenbaum stress inoculation training 3 steps
Education
Rehearsal
Immunity
Gradual not implosive exposure
PMS not typical
Math SAT and grades
boys vs girls Boys significantly higher in Math SAT
But not in grades
Burnout and type of worker insecure hard worker
Onset of personality disorders
Diagnosis Not required to be generally before 18yrs
But by early adulthood
Ferberizing Put baby to bed when awake
Progressive waiting
Authoritative Parenting and Academic achievement Best for Anglo
Not as good for Hispanic and AfA
Probably not good for Asian
Absense seizures Petit mals
Brief 30 secs
Begin in childhood, outgrown by adulthood
Originate in thalamus
Tiedeman and O’hara Based on Erikson’s model
Person develops vocation identity through
Differentiation (don’t like this job)
Integration (Identify with job)
Kohlberg Gender Identity gender IS Cool
gender identity (9 months – 3yrs) label sex
gender stability – 4yrs stable over time
gender constancy – 4 to 7 yrs always the same
Idiopathic Of unknown cause
Allopathic typical medical treatment
Children’s Ethnic Perspective-taking ability EPTA stage1 3-4 yrs
describe in terms of physical traits
stage 2 5-9 years
Apply ethnic label to self and others accurately
Stage 3 7-12 years
social perspective including prejudice
Stage 4 10-15 yrs
immerse in ethnic group
Presbypobia Long-sighted
20 years to 60 years
4 in to 4 feet
Halsted Impairment Index # subtests failed / total subtests administered
Leader characteristics Visionary
creative
flexible
insipiring
courageous
independent
Best WAIS “hold” tests Vocab
Information
Picture Completion
Therapist experience and outcome Moderate relationship overall
Stronger if symptoms are severe
Exposure and anxiety disorders Exposure is best
Mode of exposure depends on the disorder.
Approximate Word count = 3671
Approximate Pages = 14.7
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