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My EPPP - Statistics and Research Design

Alpha is the probability of a Type I error—rejecting the null hypothesis when it’s actually true. Researchers typically set alpha at .05 or .01 before analyzing data.

My EPPP - Social Psychology

This is the tendency to attribute others’ behavior to their personality (dispositional factors) while attributing our own behavior to the situation (situational factors).

My EPPP - Physiological Psychology/Psychopharmacology

Aphasia is a language disorder. Broca’s affects speech production, Wernicke’s impairs comprehension, and conduction aphasia disrupts repetition due to damage between language centers.

My EPPP - Lifespan Development

This emerges in the formal operational stage and includes the personal fable (belief in one's uniqueness and invulnerability) and imaginary audience (belief that others are constantly watching and judging).

My EPPP - Learning Theory

A learning process where a neutral stimulus becomes associated with an unconditioned stimulus, eventually triggering a conditioned response—like a dog salivating to a tone after it's been paired with food.

My EPPP - Industrial/Organizational Psychology

dverse impact happens when a hiring tool disproportionately excludes protected groups. The 80% rule checks for this by comparing the minority hiring rate to at least 80% of the majority group’s rate.

My EPPP - Ethics and Professional Issues

Psychologists are legally required in all jurisdictions to report known or suspected cases of child abuse to the proper authorities, regardless of client confidentiality.

My EPPP - Clinical Psychology

Berry’s model outlines four acculturation strategies—integration, assimilation, separation, and marginalization—based on how individuals relate to both their original culture and the dominant culture.

My EPPP - Abnormal Psychology

A traditional Asian healing method involving the insertion of thin needles at specific body points to restore the flow of qi (vital energy). Modern research links its effects to pain relief and changes in brain or blood flow.

Psychology: Science features

This flashcard set outlines the fundamental principles of scientific research, including objectivity, the empirical method, replicability, falsifiability, and theory construction. It helps students understand how scientific knowledge is developed, tested, and validated through systematic and unbiase...

Psychology: Peer Review in the Scientific Process

This flashcard set explains the role and importance of peer review in scientific research. It covers its purposes, how it maintains scientific standards, and outlines both advantages and limitations, including common criticisms. Essential for understanding how research is evaluated and validated bef...

Psychology: inferential statistics

Psychology: Distributions

This flashcard set covers key concepts related to data distribution in psychology, including normal and skewed distributions. It explains their characteristics, such as symmetry and the relationship between the mean, median, and mode, and describes how data can be distributed positively or negativel...

Psychology: levels of measurement

This flashcard set introduces the nominal and ordinal levels of measurement, explaining how they are defined, measured, and exemplified. It helps students understand how different types of data are categorized and the implications for statistical analysis in psychological research.

Psychology: Graphs

This flashcard set explains different methods of presenting quantitative data, including graphs, tables, scattergrams, and bar charts. It outlines when to use each format based on the type of data and the purpose of the analysis, helping students choose the most effective way to communicate research...

Psychology: Descriptive statistics

This flashcard set covers key concepts in descriptive statistics and correlation for psychological research. It includes definitions and formulas for measures of central tendency (mean, median, mode), range, standard deviation, and the interpretation of positive and negative correlations—fundamental...

Psychology: data handling and analysis

This flashcard set explains the differences between quantitative and qualitative data, outlines their respective data collection techniques, and introduces the concept of primary data. It’s designed to help students understand how different types of data are gathered and used in psychological resear...

Psychology: Reliability and Validity

This flashcard set explains the concept of reliability in research, including definitions, assessment methods like test-retest and inter-observer reliability, and techniques to ensure consistent and dependable results across time and observers. Ideal for students learning how to evaluate the trustwo...

Psychology: Ethics

This flashcard set covers key ethical principles and guidelines in psychological research based on the British Psychological Society (BPS) code of ethics. Topics include informed consent, deception, right to withdraw, confidentiality, and the overall role of ethics in protecting participants' rights...

Psychology: Self report

This flashcard set explores open and closed questions in questionnaire design, highlighting their definitions, strengths, and limitations. It helps students understand how question formats influence the type and quality of data collected in psychological research.

Psychology: Observations

This flashcard set explains key elements of observational design in psychological research. It covers behavioral categories, their strengths and limitations, and introduces event sampling as a method for capturing specific behaviors. Ideal for students learning how to systematically observe and reco...

Psychology: Scientific Processes

This flashcard set covers essential concepts related to variables in experimental psychology. It defines independent and dependent variables, explains the role of extraneous variables, and highlights the impact of confounding variables. Perfect for building a solid foundation in experimental design ...

Psychology: Experiments

This flashcard set introduces foundational concepts in psychological research, including the difference between aims and hypotheses, types of hypotheses (directional vs. non-directional), and key sampling terms like population, sample, and random sampling. It's designed to help students grasp essent...

Psychology: Correlations

This flashcard set explains the concept of correlation in psychological research, including its definition, how it is measured using the correlation coefficient, and the differences between positive and negative correlations. It helps students understand how variables relate without implying causati...

Psychology: Content analysis

This flashcard set covers the fundamentals of content and thematic analysis in qualitative research. It defines key terms, outlines the steps involved in content analysis, and distinguishes it from thematic analysis. The set is ideal for students and researchers learning how to systematically interp...

Psychology: case studies

This flashcard set provides a comprehensive overview of case studies in psychological research. It explains their definition, key features, strengths, and limitations, as well as their role in theory development and clinical psychology. The set also contrasts case studies with experimental methods a...

MFT Exam - MFT Assessments

An objective tool assessing family cohesion, flexibility, and communication to understand family functioning and balance.

MFT Exam - Communications Theory

Relationships based on differences that complement and fit together, balancing each other’s roles. Verbal communication relying on words and their explicit meanings.

MFT Exam - Sex Therapy

Focusing mentally on one’s sexual performance during sex, which can cause or result from performance anxiety, disrupting natural sexual response.

MFT Exam - HIPAA

Information can be shared with family or friends if it’s in the client’s best interest and relates to their care or payment, especially if the client cannot consent.

MFT Exam - Bateson and General Systems Theory

A system is a set of interconnected parts that function as a whole. It is defined by boundaries and displays consistent, patterned behaviors.

MFT Exam - Narrative Family therapy

Former clients return to support others in therapy, reinforcing their own progress and strengthening the collaborative, empowering nature of Narrative Therapy.

MFT Exam - Solution Focused Therapy

Visitors attend therapy but don’t see themselves as part of the problem or solution. They are often unmotivated to change and may be there at someone else’s request.

MFT Exam - Object Relations Theory Flashcards

This deck contains 10 flashcards that cover key concepts from Object Relations Theory, a major approach in Transgenerational Models of Family Therapy.

MFT Exam - Satir Experiential

Blamers externalize responsibility, blaming others when things go wrong. This style masks deep insecurity and powerlessness, acknowledging self and context but not others.

MFT Exam - Symbolic Experiential

The therapist openly shares their genuine emotional reactions with the family to deepen engagement and challenge rigid dynamics. This honesty models emotional expression and invites authenticity.

MFT Exam - Emotionally Focussed Couples Therapy

A flashcard deck covering key concepts in Emotionally Focussed Couples Therapy, including its main ideas, attachment, softening, primary needs, primary emotions, secondary emotions, and bonding.

MFT Exam - Bowen's Family Systems Approach

A deck of 21 flashcards covering essential concepts from Bowen's Family Systems Approach for the MFT Exam.

MFT Exam - MRI Group

This refers to superficial change at the behavioral level, where patterns may shift but the underlying family structure or rules remain the same. It does not alter the system's core dynamics.

MFT Exam - Strategic Family Therapy

This deck covers the key concepts, techniques, and strategies used in Strategic Family Therapy, a classical approach to family therapy.

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