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PSYC 420 Questions and answers Egocentrism - inability to distinguish between your own and another's perspective. Executive Function - managing thoughts to engage in goal-directed behavior, self-control Inhibition - do something not automatic Cognitive Flexibility - adjust to new tasks, switch attention

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Psyc 420 One Questions and answers Entwistle maintains that both theology and psychology help us understand humans, with what important warning? - Both viewpoints are shaped by the assumptions that are made at the outset. To think critically about any written work, it's important to know the author's background. What is Entwistle's background? - Evangelical Christian trained in clinical psychology

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Psyc 420 Midterm Questions and answers presenting concern effective therapists have sincere interest in the welfare of others diagnosis consists of identifying a specific mental disorder based on a pattern on symptoms; purpose is to identify disruptions in a client's present behavior and lifestyle Assessment evaluating the relevant factors in a clients life to identify themes for further exploration in the counseling process. foundational skills

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10 pages

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psyc 420 midterm Questions and answers Our client, Maria, Her presenting concerns - 20-year-old sophomore, majoring in Psych; Mexican American straight woman First-gen college student & first gen American; parents born in Mexico & are undocumented immigrants Referred by instructor who expressed concern re: academic performance. She's struggling to make it to classes and hasseveral late assignments. During intake, Maria expressed discomfort about pa

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PSYC 420 Final Exam Questions and answers Chromosomes - Made of protein and a single molecule of DNA that carries genetic information. DNA - Molecule that carries genetic information for the development and functioning of an organism. Genes - The basic unit of inheritance Genotype - genetic makeup of an organism Phenotype - physical characteristics of an organism

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28 pages

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PSYC 420 FINAL Questions and answers What might be the issue with the strict secular/sacred distinction when it come to relating psychology to Christianity? - - Individuals who espouse a Sacred/Secular split in an attempt to preserve theological supremacy actually minimize the scope of God's Sovereignty. - You are putting God in a box - You are limiting God's Sovereignity

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12 pages

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psyc 420 final Questions and answers behavior therapy philosophy - All behaviors are learned and behaviors can be changed. - Focus on directly observable behavior and internal processes behavior therapy goals - To eliminate maladaptive behaviors and learn more effective behaviors. - To identify factors that influence behavior and find out what can be done about problematic behavior. behavior therapy key concepts

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PSYC 420 Final Questions and answers Which of the following is one of the criteria stated by the mental health community for a diagnosis of psychological disorder? - The individual's behavior must reflect dysfunction in psychological, biological, or developmental processes Maria was involved in a serious car accident in which she sustained a head injury. At present, her injury has become worse and as a result she is behaving in bizarre and highly disturbing ways. Maria's change ...

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26 pages

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PSYC 420 Final Questions and answers The biopsychosocial perspective incorporates a developmental viewpoint. This means - individuals must be seen as changing over time. Calvin works at a paper manufacturing company. The bleaching agents used by the company are toxic in nature and as a result of being exposed to these substances, Calvin has been

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6 pages

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PSYC 420 Final Questions and answers

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103 pages

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PSYC 420 Final Questions and answers According to the biopsychosocial model, when Bella engages in risky behavior, her vulnerability to developing A. AIDS is reduced. B. genetic disorders is heightened. C. mood related disorders is reduced. D. abnormal behavioral tendencies is heightened. - D According to the biopsychosocial model, it is most likely that an individual's vulnerability to develop abnormal behavioral tendencies will be low when he/she A. uses drugs to divert hi...

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103 pages

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PSYC 420 Final Questions and answers According to the biopsychosocial model, when Bella engages in risky behavior, her vulnerability to developing A. AIDS is reduced. B. genetic disorders is heightened. C. mood related disorders is reduced. D. abnormal behavioral tendencies is heightened. - D According to the biopsychosocial model, it is most likely that an individual's vulnerability to develop abnormal behavioral tendencies will be low when he/she A. uses drugs to divert hi...

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103 pages

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PSYC 420 FINAL Exam Questions and answers Which study examining the impact of teachers is CLEARLY unethical? - A researcher randomly assigns third-graders to a high-quality teacher and a low-quality teacher and measures their grades at the end of the year. If a researcher goes to a playground and records the frequency of aggressive acts among a sample of first graders, this person is employing the measurement technique called_____________. - naturalistic observation

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PSYC 420 Exam 2 Questions and answers Damage to the Amygdala is associated with impairment of: a. Implicit memory b. Prospective memory c. Explicit memory d. Retrograde memory - a. Implicit memory Change blindness demonstrates that

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16 pages

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psyc 420 exam 2 Questions and answers True or false: Piaget believed that children were like sponges and passively absorbed information from the world around them. - False Piaget believed that children ______ their own cognitive worlds. - actively construct According to Piaget, at what age does the sensorimotor period end? - 24 months True or false: Concrete operations do not allow the child to consider multiple characteristics of an object. - false

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Psyc 420 Exam 2 Questions and answers Preschoolers: Obesity - tripled in past 2 decades - caused by genetic and environmental factors, suffer social problems as they get older Health and illness - good nutrition, will have 7 to 10 colds each year from age 3 to 5 - learn coping skills and empathy for others who are sick Drug treatment - depression in children is treated with prescription - use of these drugs has grown

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PSYC 420 Exam 1 Questions and answers milestones - help explain development and understand how we got to where we are now finish school, first job, drivers license, walking, talking, marriage four contexts of development - cohort, SES, culture/social ethics, gender cohort - birth group baby boomer, generations X, Y, Z my generation: more technology than grandparents generation

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21 pages

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PSYC 420 Colonialists Exam Questions and answers Colonialism - - subjugating a foreign land and making use of its resources Colonialism (PSYCH and Christianity) - - Christians take isolated facts from psych that can further their agenda - in general, Christians remain skeptical of psychology What is the major limitation of the Colonialist model? - - idea from colonialist perspective that we filter interpretation of psych through filter of God's word

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PSYC 420 Chapter 1 Exam Questions and answers What is the main goal of helping relationships - Enhancement and encouragement of client change What is consistent in the steps of all helping relationships? - initiation of relationship through a clinically based working stage to a termination stage What are the six core conditions? - Empathetic understanding, respect and positive regard, genuineness and congruence, concreteness, warmth, and immediacy.

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PSYC 420 Ch. 19 Questions and answers clinical death - a period during which vital signs are absent but resuscitation is still possible brain death - the point at which vital signs, including brain activity, are absent and resuscitation is no longer possible social death - the point at which family members and medical personnel treat the deceased person as a corpse

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