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EXAM 1- CLPS 450 Q&A

CLPS 450 Historical Perspective Q&A

This document has everything you need for this course, including lecture notes & reading notes from the essential readings for the different topics for this course, as well as 2 pre-written full essays that cover questions that are likely to be in the exam. I put these notes together and revised the essays I had created for the exam and received 75% on the final exam. The topics covered are: Topic 1 – Social Perception, Attitudes, Attribution Topic 2 – Self and Identity Topic 3 – Group...

This document has everything you need for this course, including lecture notes & reading notes from the essential readings for the different topics for this course, as well as 2 pre-written full essays that cover questions that are likely to be in the exam. I put these notes together and revised the essays I had created for the exam and received 72% on the final exam. The full essays included are: 1. Why are attention and executive function skills important (for socioemotional development/MH)...

The asylums of the 1500s were originallyhospitals and monasteries The specialty that presently has the largest number of practitioners issocial work Johann Weyer was a physician in the1500s An otherwise normal person under the influence of hypnotic suggestion is made to bark, sit, and fetch like a dog. The occurrence of these abnormal behaviors lends support to which explanation for abnormality?psychogenic A researcher spends 15 hours or more each day conducting experiments or doing libr...

Katherine always feels threatened and anxious, imagining something awful is about to happen. She is able to work and care for her family, although not as well as she would like. Katherine is probably experiencing: CORRECT:a generalized anxiety disorder. INCORRECT: a hormonal imbalance. no specific problem; worrying is a personality trait. a specific fear response. A person who believes that one should be thoroughly competent and perform flawlessly in all possible aspects of life is di...

Abnormal psychology - The scientific study of atypical behavior to describe, predict, explain, and treat patterns of functioning Psychological abnormality - Defined by the four D's: Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, and Danger Deviance - Behavior that significantly differs from the societal norm Distress - Behavior causing significant stress or discomfort Dysfunction - Behavior that interferes with daily life and functioning Danger - Behavior that poses a threat to oneself or others (ca...

apperceptive agnosia a failure to understand the meaning of objects due to a deficit at the level of object perception can't recognize or name objects -- no semantic impairment perceptual categorizations happens in bad at unconventional views test-- damage in right hemisphere associative agnosia a failure to understand the meaning of objects due to a deficit at the level of semantic memory can see the object just can't recognize what it is damage in left hemisphere

short term storeprimary, immediate, working memory - limited duration if not rehearsed rate of forgetting: Brown Peterson Paradigm- given constant trigram (ex: DBX) and then 3 digit number - count backwards by 3's for varying amount of time and then asked to recall the consonants that you were given at start as time of counting backwards went UP recall went DOWN Long term storepermanent store short term memory syndromeabnormally rapid forgetting - decaying much more rapidly than 3...

short term storeprimary, immediate, working memory - limited duration if not rehearsed rate of forgetting: Brown Peterson Paradigm- given constant trigram (ex: DBX) and then 3 digit number - count backwards by 3's for varying amount of time and then asked to recall the consonants that you were given at start as time of counting backwards went UP recall went DOWN Long term storepermanent store short term memory syndromeabnormally rapid forgetting - decaying much more rapidly than 3...