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Ab Psych Exam 1
| Question | Answer | Answer |
|---|---|---|
| Abnormal Psychology | Specialty within Psychology focused on mental illness (maladaptive/abnormal behavior), its causes,consequences and treatment. | |
| Psychiatrist (M.D.) | diagnoses and treats using medications and/or psychotherapy. | |
| Clinical Psychologist (Ph.D.) | diagnoses and treats using psychotherapy. | |
| Psychiatric Social Worker (M.S.) | provides psychotherapy and helps improve patient's home environment and address daily living problems | |
| Supernatural (demonic) Theory | Mental illness is due to possession by evil spirits | Treatment included ways to eliminate (or sequester) the unwanted demons |
| Organic Theory | Mental illness resulted from direct or indirect bodily/brain dysfunction | Treatment included restraining and rotating chairs to control the flow of blood to the brain. |
| Benjamin Rush | believed mental illness resulted from cerebral vascular problems | Treated mental illness within a hospital setting |
| chlorpromazine | improved severe symptoms of mental illness | above lead to de-institutionalization (release into society) of mentally ill people |
| Psychological Theory | Mental illness is a product of thinking and/or social difficulties | |
| "biopsychosocial" model | Biological, psychological and social factors are important to consider when dealing with mental illness | |
| Adaptation | The ability to modify ones behavior to successfully meet environmental demands | |
| Resilience | Protective factors allowing a person to respond adaptively (e.g., coping skills) | |
| Vulnerability | Factors hindering the ability to respond adaptively due to mental illness risk factors (e.g., genetics) | |
| Theoretical Perspectives | •Biological •Cognitive •Behavioral Psychodynamic Humanistic-Existential Community-Cultural | |
| Biological Perspective | Mental illness is due to a defect in brain structure or function | |
| Cognitive Perspective | states that behavior is influenced by the way the person thinks. Emphasis is on mental processes (thoughts) that one is aware of (not those that are subconscious). | |
| Overgeneralization | Making a negative global statement based on a single event (e.g., a woman thinks that all men are untrustworthy after one man cheats). | |
| Excessive Responsibility | Blaming oneself for negative events that the person does not have control over (e.g., blaming oneself for another person's shortcomings). | |
| Arbitrary Inference | Jumping to a negative conclusion based on insufficient evidence (e.g., concluding that a spouse is unfaithful because of arriving home late). | |
| Selective Abstraction | Focusing on the negative points out of context of the larger picture (e.g., dwelling on the one mistake you made during your presentation and ignoring the good parts). | |
| Catastrophizing | Assuming the worst outcome AND then exaggerating the importance of that outcome | |
| Dichotomous Thinking | Viewing people, actions, and experiences in one of two extreme categories (e.g., good-bad/all-none). | |
| Behavioral Perspective | Behaviors result from an interaction with the environment, which causes learning (a change in behavior). | |
| Classical Conditioning | Learning in which a stimulus acquires the capacity to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus | |
| Operant (Instrumental) Conditioning | Learning that results as a consequence of acting on the environment | |
| Vicarious Learning | Learning behavior through observation (live action or TV). | |
| Psychodynamic Perspective | Behavior results from intrapsychic forces, urges and motivations. | Belief that information in the unconscious influences behavior; thus it is important to reveal its contents (making the unconscious conscious). |
| Humanistic Perspective | ): In finding the meaning of life, the emphasis is on the automatic tendency for people to "self-actualize" (achieve ones potential) | |
| Existentialist Perspective | In finding the meaning of life, the emphasis is on self-determination, choice and the responsibility of the person to deal effectively with the environment | |
| Community-Cultural (C-C) Perspective | •Maladaptive behavior results from an inability to cope effectively with stress (not a character flaw). •Disease isn't just from within a person but at least partly due to failure of social support and economics. | |
| Interactional Approach | views behavior from each theoretical perspective rather than just one. | |
| Sublimation | When a person expresses an unacceptable impulse in a constructive, socially- acceptable manner. | |
| Humor | When a person expresses distress by joking about a distressful thought | |
| Suppression | When a person consciously puts an upsetting thought temporarily into the unconscious for retrieving (and addressing) at a more appropriate time. | |
| Undoing | When a person completes an action that symbolically reverses/repairs the unacceptable behavior or feeling. | |
| Dissociation | When a person separates/removes oneself mentally from an experience to prevent the full distressful impact of the event | |
| Altruism | When a person gives generously to others in reaction to anxiety or guilt about something. | |
| Denial | When a person refuses to believe a clear fact and thus does not adjust ones behavior. | |
| Repression | When a person banishes feelings into the unconscious so that feelings/thoughts are not retrievable. | |
| Projection | When a person disowns their own feelings and gives ownership of those feelings to somebody (something) else (e.g., an angry man denies being angry but says that his wife is angry). | |
| Displacement | When a person redirects their feelings from the original (true) source of the emotion to another person/object. In other words, a person takes out frustrations on somebody else. | |
| Mental Illness | A clinically significant behavioral/ psychological syndrome that is associated with significant distress, disruption, or harm |
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mbrooks@knights.ucf.
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