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What is abnormal psychology   scientific study of mental problems  
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Clinical Scientists   gather information predict and explain  
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clinical practitioners   detect and treat abnormalities  
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What are the 4 D's   Deviance Distressing Dysfunctional and dangerous  
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Norms   Stated and unstated rules for conduct  
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Culture   history values in situations habits skills technology and arts  
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who was Szaz   thought abnormal psych was a myth that society creates to control the norm  
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What are 3 essential features to therapy   Sufferer seeking relief, trained and accepted listener, series of contacts between the two  
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What was Trephination   Instrument used to cut away circular section of the skull  
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What is exorcism   tortured scared prayed and plead for sprints to leave  
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Humors believed what   that we have yellow bile black bile blood and phlegm, too much yellow- frenzy too much black-depression  
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How was Europe in the middle ages?   church was highly involved so satans work was assumed usually  
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what does lycanthropy mean   posessed by wolves  
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what is tyrantism   bit by a spider  
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Who was the first mental illness specialist   Johann Weyer, formed asylums  
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Who were Pinel and Turke?   First supporters and activists of moral treatment  
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What is Thorndikes law of effect?   If a response is followed by a positive consequence response will be repeated if a response is followed by a negative one it wont  
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What are behaviorist interested in   thinking and feeling  
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What are humanistic interested in   self esteem emotions, thinks we are genetically programmed to be as good as posible.  
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What did Rogers believe   Person is the center and there are 3 conditions of worth genuineness, unconditional positive regaurd, empathy  
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What did Gostaut think   Cake ingrediants, all are needed and we need to focus on the now  
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What is an enmensed family   youre so close you cant breathe  
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what is a disengaged family   dont talk very often  
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What are biases that increase anxiety   gay, gender, weight  
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What is Idiographic   individual information about clients that could help a person overcome problems specific to them  
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what is an Assessment   collecting information to reach a conclusion  
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Clinical assessment   How and why a person is behaving abnormally using interviews tests and observations  
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Standardize   set up common steps to be followed no matter who is administering, also helpful to do when reading so we can avoid biasis  
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Reliability   consistancy of measures should answer the same in the same situations  
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Interrater reliability   needs more than one judge because it isnt black or white  
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validity   accurately measure what its intended to measure  
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face validity   may seem correct because it would make sense but could be wrong  
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predictive   test to judge what will happen in the future, for example on kids ot see if they will become smokers  
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concurrent validity   degree in which the tool compares with one already in use  
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Clinical interviews   face to face encounter  
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What happens in the first contact with a clinical interview   detailed list of problems feels and reason for therapy  
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psychodynamic   needs memories past events and relationships  
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behaviorial   try to pinpoint stimulus and consequences  
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cognitive   assumptions and interpretations  
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humanistic   self evaluation and values  
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biological   chemicals and dysfunction  
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sociocultural   family and the social environments impacts  
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Unstructured   ask open ended questions, usually for humanistic and psychodynamic  
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Structured   Designed for same questions for everyone regaurdless of answer, behavioral and cognitive uses  
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Mental Status exam   set of questions that evaluate clients awareness and regaurd to time place attention memory judgement and insight through content mood and appearance  
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What are the limitations of clinical tests   clients may alter themselves for personal reasons, we rely on first impressions too highly, people respond differently to inverviewers based on race gender and age  
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Test   device for gathering information, currently 500 in US  
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Projective test   Do little tasks like draw or interpret for inner feelings to come out  
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Rorschach Test   A projective test, Inkplot  
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Thematic Appreciation   Projective test 30 general pictures of people, you have to tell a story  
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Sentence Completion   Projective spring board for discussion  
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Drawing   Projective Must draw humans and the details reveal  
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Personality Inventories   asks questions about behavior beliefs and feelings  
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What is MMPI2   Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, more than 500 true false questions with 10 scales rating 0-120 for each  
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Psychathenia   Obsessions compulsions abnormal fears guilt and indecisiveness  
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Response inventories   more specific questions about themselves with emotion or social or cognitive to understand its role in a person  
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Affective   measures severity as well  
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Beck Depression Inventory   Rates the level of sadness and functioning  
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Psychophysilogical   measures physical response to psychological things like heart rate temperature and blood pressure  
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Example of Psychophysiliogical   polygraph test  
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Neuro test   electroencephalogram- brain qaves and neron fire  
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Cat scan   x ray  
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Pet Scan   motion picture of chemicals  
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MRI   magnets create detailed picture  
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Neuropsycho Test   measure cognitive perceptual and motor  
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Bender Visual motor gestult test   look at a picture and redraw it  
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intellegence test   Judge reason and comprehend well can only be indirectly measured  
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Simon and Binet   IQ Test  
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DSM 4TR   Diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders text revised volume 4  
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comorbid   more than one diagnosis  
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EAP   employee assiistance program, we send mental illness to hospital, hospital sends employees to therapists  
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milieu   enviornment thats helpful with meditation  
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Dorthea Dix   In US made it so that there were laws for humane treatement and got 32 state hospitals  
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If you wanted a career in which you focus on detecting, assessing, and treating abnormal patterns of functioning, you should look into becoming a   clinical practitioner  
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Brilliant scholars or champion athletes are not considered clinically abnormal because   their behaviors are valued by the culture.  
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Which aspect of the definition of abnormality includes the inability to care for oneself and work productively?   dysfunction  
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Which of the following statements is most accurate regarding the incidence of psychological abnormality, historically and worldwide?   it appears in all cultures at all periods of time  
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made to drink bitter herbal potions and then submit to a beating, in the hope that “evil spirits” will be driven from the person's body. This form of “therapy” is called   exorcism  
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The largest percentage of survery respondents believe that   people bring on mental illness themselves  
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Which of the following is part of the legacy of Dorothea Dix   state mental hospitals  
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Hippocrates' model of mental illness would be described as   somatogenic  
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The somatogenic treatment for mental illness that seems to be the most successful is the use of   various medications  
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The early psychogenic treatment that was advocated by Mesmer, Josef Breuer, and even Sigmund Freud was   hypnotism  
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Freud was all about   unconscious  
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Psychoanalysis is NOT very effective for hospitalized mental patients because   patients lack the necessary insight and verbal skills.  
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Drugs designed to decrease extremely confused and distorted thinking are termed   antipsychotics  
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If your primary symptom were excessive worry, the best psychotropic drug for you would be an   antianxiety medicine  
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In the United States today, one is most likely to find a severely ill mental patient   on the street or in jail  
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Wich of the following research methods is used to determine a relationship between two variables, but does not prove cause and effect   correlational  
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Which of the following is not a common feature of managed care programs?   patients choice in how many sessions of therapy  
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A physician who offers psychotherapy is called a   psychiatrist  
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Somatogenic Perspective   abnormal psych functioning has physical causes  
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Psychogenic Perspective   the chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological  
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A panel of psychologists and psychiatrists evaluates the test results and clinical interviews of a client in a sanity hearing. They all arrive at the same diagnosis. The panel has high:   interrater reliability  
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An inventory that asks about one's level of anxiety, depression, and anger   affective inventory  
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In science, the perspectives used to explain phenomena are known as   paradigms  
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Understanding a person's unconscious processes is critical in explaining abnormality.” Which model of abnormality does this quote most closely represent?   psychodynamic  
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“Abnormal” behaviors—indeed, all behaviors—are acquired through learning.” Which model of abnormality does this quote most closely represent?   behavior  
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Depression has been linked to which neurotransmitter abnormality   low activity of serotonin and norepinephrine  
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Freud believed that the three central forces that shape the personality were the   instinctual needs, realistic thinking, and conscience.  
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A psychoanalyst says that a middle-aged patient appears to be extremely dependent, mistrustful, and depressed. The term the psychoanalyst would most likely use for this patient is:   fixiated  
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According to psychoanalytic theory, which of the following is true regarding dreams   they reflect unconscious needs and desires  
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A previously neutral environmental event that becomes associated with the unconditioned stimulus is called a   conditioned stimulus  
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A client in a totally relaxed state vividly imagines formerly anxiety-arousing situations without feeling any lingering anxiety. Most likely, that client has just completed what type of therapy   systematic desensitization  
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deinstitutionalized   began in 1960's mass releasing of mental illness paitents  
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psychotrophic medications   mainly affect the brain and reduces dysfunction  
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moral treatment   19th century approach using respect and talking  
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asylum   16th century almost like a prison  
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single subject experiment   observations and experiments on single subject before and after manipulated  
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analogue experiment   experimenter produces abnormal behavior in subjects then experiments on them  
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quasi experiment   make use of already existing control and experimental factors in the large world  
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placebo experiment   a sham that people beleive to be real  
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blind design   people do not know if they are in the experiment or control group  
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confound   an element that affects the dependent variable other than the independent  
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prevalence   total number of cases of a disorder in a population over time  
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epidimiological   prevalance and incidence in population  
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external validity   the extent that the results can be generalized to the population  
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nomethetic understanding   understanding of nature causes and treatments in abnormal psychology in form of laws and principles  
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hormones   released by glands into the bloodstream  
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Diathesis   Predisposition  
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Ediology   cause, psych social and biological  
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id   pleasure center  
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ego   reality and reason  
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superego   conscience ideal self  
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oral   0-1  
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anal   1-2  
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phallic   3-5  
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genital   puberty and beyond  
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cartharsis   perging of the mind  
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transference   emotional bond  
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existential   meaningless until we find a value for it  
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Axis 1   an extensive list of clinical sydromes causing impairment ex. major depressive disorder  
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Axis 2   Personality disorder/ mental retardation example dependent personality disorder  
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Axis 3   information concerning relevant general medical condition example diabetes  
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Axis 4   special psychosocial or enviornmental problems example school or housing problems  
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Axis 5   global assessment of functioning GAF of 1-100 on severity  
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