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