Psyc 335 Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

Who is responsible for defining the construct of self efficacy? - Answer Albert Bandura Who did Bandura draw his definition from? - Answer John Locke, David Hume, William James and Gilbert Ryle What did these thinkers believe self efficacy involved? - Answer 1- related to sense of personal control 2- focused on wilfulness or volition (power of using one's will) How did Bandura define self efficacy? - Answer People's beliefs in their capabilities to produce desired effect...

What is development? - Answer systematic changes and continuities in the individual that occur between conception and death What drives development? - Answer maturation and learning What is maturation? - Answer hereditary influences on aging process What is learning? - Answer change in behavior due to experience 3 goals of developmentalist - Answer 1. describe 2. explain 3. optimize what is the nature of development - Answer continutal, holistic plastic, and h...

hypomanic episodes are similar to manic episodes, but the symptoms are _____ in severity and they cause _____ impairment. - Answer mild, less unipolar major depressive disorder is much _____ common than bipolar disorder. - Answer more previous editions of the DSM suggested that major depressive disorder _____ diagnosed if the individual displaying symptoms had lost a loved one in the past two months. - Answer should not be a diagnosis of persistent depressive disorder is made i...

3 interconnected functions of the nervous system and how they generate behavior - Answer -sensory input: uses 5 senses -integration: uses the brain and spinal cord to process what was saw -motor output: behavior or motion is released *example: you feel (sensory input) a fly on you and you swat it away (integration come in cause you want the fly removed from and you do the motion of swatting it away) Discuss the role of nature (biology) and nurture (experience) in shaping brain structu...

What were the 4 stages of early American psychology? - Stage 1: Moral and Mental Philosophy (1640-1776) Stage 2: intellectual philosophy (1776-1886) Stage 3: The US Renaissance (1886-1896) Stage 4: US Functionalism (1896 & beyond) What were the beliefs during the first stage of early American psychology (1640-1776)? - "Psychology existed for the sake of logic, and logic for the sake of God" What event caused the beginning of enlightenment during the first stage of early American psycho...

Test Bank Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing A Clinical 9th Edition by Margaret Jordan Halter |Test Bank| Chapter 1-36 UPDATED 2023

PSYC 335: Test Bank Varcarolis' Foundations of Psychiatric-Mental Health Nursing A Clinical 9th Edition by Margaret Jordan Halter |Test Bank|Chapter 1-36 UPDATED 2023

In considering systems of classification, the terms category and dimension are distinguished by: a) category is continuous whereas a dimension is a discrete grouping. b) a dimension is continuous whereas a category is a discrete grouping. c) categories are for scientific classification whereas dimensions are for clinical classification. d) dimensions are for scientific classification whereas categories are for clinical classification. - Answer B After assessing Billy, three differen...

in considering systems of classification, the terms category and dimension are distinguished by - Answer a dimension is continuous whereas a category is a discrete grouping after assessing Billy, three different clinicians all agree on his diagnosis. This suggests that the diagnostic system the clinicians used has good - Answer interrater reliability interrater reliability - Answer are ratings by different people correlated test-retest reliability - Answer stability of ratin...