FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC 125

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FREE PSYCHOLOGY AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT PSYC 125

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Question 1: Phantom Limb Pain

Answer:

When starved of stimulus, brain region will imagine stimulus & create signal

Question 2: Memory Recall

Answer:

Immediate & delayed; test if info is falling out

Question 3: PET disadvantages

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radioactive poor resolution can only do 1 task at a time expensive

Question 4: How does r/TMS work?

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Magnetic pulses disrupt ongoing cognitive processing, activate simple motor & visual systems

Question 5: 3 types of Reliability

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Test retest Split-half Inter-rater

Question 6: Steps of Neuropsychological Assessment

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Review background (medical records) Interview & mental status exam Testing Written report Feedback Follow up

Question 7: Wisconsin Card Sort Test

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Tests cognitive flexibility & problem solving

Question 8: Visuospatial functioning is...

Answer:

A higher level component; can you perceive an object in a 3D space?

Question 9: EEG are what type of imaging method?

Answer:

Functional

Question 10: Nocioceptors

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Respond to pain

Question 11: Grey Matter

Answer:

cell bodies

Question 12: Personality/Mood

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Disorder-specific

EX: Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory

Question 13: Fast TMS pulses (10-30 Hz) will...

Answer:

enhance functioning

Question 14: Content Validity

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How well a test covers all aspects of behavior of interest

Question 15: Event-Related Potentials (ERPs)

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Time-locked response to a specific stimulus

Question 16: Convergent Validity (Construct)

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Administer test of interest along with an established test that tests same thing If new test is accurate, both tests should converge & arrive to same conclusion

Question 17: CT/CAT Scans created...

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New methods for neuropathological diagnosis & lesion localization

Question 18: fMRI advantages

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good spatial resolution no radiation, safe better resolution that PET can be >1 task at a time

Question 19: Somatosensory System

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Info sent from body to thalamus & contralateral primary somatosensory cortex

Question 20: Fixed Battery Advantages

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Comprehensive Patterns of scores can facilitate diagnosis Teaching (test selection is eliminated) Good for research (completely standardized) Easier for people new to field

Question 21: A measure can be reliable but...

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not valid

Question 22: Test Retest Reliability

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Administer same test twice over a period of time, then correlate results

Question 23: Higher Cognitive Functions

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Attention/Concentration Executive Functioning

Question 24: Wilder Penfield

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Mapped motor cortex & some somatosensory cortex

Question 25: EEG is to ERP as MRI is to...

Answer:

fMRI