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Ab. Psych. Exam II
Question | Answer |
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What is an operational definition? | Delineation of a concept on the basis of the operation used to measure it. |
What assessment technique is preferred by Psychoanalytic? | Projective test such as ink blot test |
When disorders overlap what do we call this term? | Comorbidity |
What do function while anxious? | |
How often do anxiety and depression occur in the same person? | Most common additional diagnoses for all anxiety disorders, occurs 50% of cases over the course of patients life. |
What percent of the population has a true phobia? | Approximately 12.5% |
What was found of children who lived near the 9-1-1 site? | Chronic Nightmares, fear of public places, PTSD, 75,000 children, grades 4-12 or 10.5% of children in those grades suffered PTSD. 155 suffered from Agoraphobia. Feared riding public transport. |
What is the average age of depression? | 30, and the incidence of younger ages in rising. 25% of people between 18-29 have had a depression episode. |
Rapid Cycling Sepcifer | Bipolar people move quickly in and out of depressive or manic episodes. At least 4 episodes per year is considered to have a rapid cycling pattern. |
What effect does the length of a depression episode have on recovery? | even in most sever cases possibility of remission after 1 year is 90%. Even in an episode that last 5 years remission chances are 38% |
The rate of depression in ethnic groups | Major depression disorder is found to be 4 times higher in Native Americans, than the general population. |
What is the Dexamethasone Suppression test? | proposed a biological test for depression, The test failed to discriminated depression from other disorders. |