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AB test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Psychopathology | symptoms and causes of mental disorders with treatment |
| Ethiology | Causes of mental disorders |
| Living with a mental illness and the potential for danger in indiciduals | for someone with a deteriorating mental condition to appear relatively normal |
| Distress | potential indicator ego dystonic vs symptoms |
| Deviance | diverging from cultural norms |
| Personal Dysfunction | struggeling mentally and physically |
| Dangerourness | talking/making concering actions |
| Percentage of U.S adults that have experienced a mental disorder over the last 12 months | a quarter. 1 in 4 |
| Prevalaence | percentage of people in a population who have the disorder during a given interval of time |
| Lifetime precalence | existing of a disorder at any point during a person's life |
| Cultural Relativism | Cultures cary in what they define as normal or abnormal behavior |
| Cultural University | sumptoms of mental disorders are in the same ina ll cultures and societies |
| Key points made by Thomas Szasz | Characterization of behavior does not mean its an illness |
| Social stigma | involves negative attitudes within society directed towards people living with a mental disorder |
| Self Stigman | internalize socical stigma and begin to view themselves through a negative lens |
| Strategies for decreasing Social stigma | Addressing discrimination |
| Multicultural Psychology | culture, ethinity, gender are recognized as powerul influenced of human |
| Assumptions of the recovery movement | self accceptance and regaining belief in oneself is vital development |
| Dual stigma | face negative attitudes toward some aspect of identity |
| Positive psychology | helps the understanding of positive human qualities that build thriving indiciduals |
| One dimensional model of a mental disorder | cant be directly observed, limited and cannot explain the aspect of a disorder becuase the behaviors are complex |
| Multimodel Assumptions | Multiple pathways and influeneces contribute to the development of any single disorder |
| Biology based treatement techniques | psuchopharmacology, medications |
| Therapies based on the psuchoynamic model | psuchoanalysis, interpersonal |
| Behavioral Therapies | Exposure |
| Cognitive Therapies | Assumptions, thoughts, problematic behaviors |
| Personal Centered therapy | unconditional postuve regard |
| Existential therapy | philosophy and universal challenges of humanity |
| Couples Therapy | help claify communication needs and roles |
| Group Therapy | strangeres that share similar stressors of the same disorder |
| How did the impact of COVID differ for men and women | give up on employment, experienced gender based violence |
| Reliability | Consistency |
| Test retest reliability | same results given at 2 different times |
| Internal Consistency | various parts measure similar results |
| Interater reliabilty | consistency of repsonses when scored by different test administrators |
| Validity | does the test measure what it needs to measure |
| Predictive Validity | how well the test antipates a persons behavior |
| Construct Validity | relates to characteristics or disorder |
| Content Validity | how well the test measures what is needs to measure, assesses all areas known to be associated with a particular disorder |
| Standardization administration | Professionals administering a test must follow common rules or procedures |
| Standardization sample | performacne of the standardization sample is used as norms for comparison, groip who initally took the measures |
| Four Main methods of pychological assessment | Interviews, observations, psychological, neuropsychological measures |
| Problems with Projective Personality Tests | Does not meet reliability and validity standards, analysis and interpretation of responses subject to wide variation, limited cultural relvevance |
| Structual techniques for the Brain | Computerized axial tomography, Magnetic resonance imagining, diffusion tensor imagining |
| Functional Techniques for the Brain | Electroencephalograph, Magnetoencephalography, position emission tomography, Single Photo emission computed tomography, Functional MRI |
| According to the latest version of the DSM, the symptons of mental disorders must cause | significant distress or important in social occupational important areas of functioning |
| Comorbidity | When certain disorders often co-occur |
| Catergorical model | range of specific diagnosis display range of sumptoms overlapping symptoms |
| Dimensional Model | disorders reside on a continuem from normal to servere forms of a disorder |
| Problems of Labeling | overgeneralization stigma, sterotype |
| Replication so important | helps varify the research outcomes |
| Statistical significance | unlikely to have occured due to change alone, can be without being clinically significant |
| Clinical | Talking more about a meaningful difference in quality of life |
| Placebo control group importnat | Reveive an inactive substance, 75 %participants figure out that they have a condition and no one tells them |
| Double lined design | partipant and individual working directly with the partipant unaware of the experiemental contions- effectivness is dependent on weather experiment and partipants are truly "blind" |
| Key drawbacks of case studies | findings are applicable to other individuals with similar problems |
| Endophenotypes | Measures characteristics have to be heritable seen in family member who DOES NOT have the disorder- can guide prevention and early treatment efforts |
| Epigenetics | Enviromental factors that influence wheather the gene is expressed |
| Incidence | number of new cases of a disorder that appear at a certain time |
| Latrogenic effects | unintended effects of therapy- change in behavior from medication |
| Meta Analysis | Simplified process of comparing numerous research findings |
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