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Abnormal Psychology chapter 1

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Abnormal psychology is concerned with ___, ___, ___, and ___ abnormal behavior.   describing explaining predicting controlling  
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Abnormal behavior is a deviation from ___ ___ ___.   ideal mental health (problems with definition - what is ideal mental health? many people by this definition considered abnormal, it is healthy to be sad/mad sometimes)  
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cultural relativism   deviancy is defined by culture  
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cultural universality   the same mental disorders exist across all cultures  
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What three vantage points should we consider when judging someone's mental health?   individual society mental health professional  
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DSM-IV-TR definition   published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders  
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DSM-IV-TR places primary emphasis on ____ of certain syndromes.   consequences  
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prevalence   percentage of people in a given pop. who suffer from a disorder at a given point in time.  
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lifetime prevalence   total proportion of a people in the population who have ever had a disorder in their lives  
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incidence   the onset or occurrence of a given disorder over some period of time  
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two early methods of curing mental illness   trephining exorcism  
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greco roman categories for mental illness (3) and who created them?   mania melancholia phrenitis hippocrates 400BC  
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middle ages reversion to _____ explanations   supernatural (brutal exorcisms and mass hysteria, group madness)  
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the renaissance brought more _____ treatment of the mentally ill with the exception of _____.   humane witch hunts  
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early viewpoints on the causes of mental illness: (3)   biological psychological behavioral  
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syndromes   certain symptoms that occur together in clusters (unique cause, course, and outcome)  
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a progressively degenerative and irreversible physical and mental disorder   general paresis  
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who created the cathartic method? what was this a forerunner to?   josef breuer freud's psychoanalysis  
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what is behaviorism?   stresses the importance of learning and behavior in explanations of normal and abnormal development  
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multipath model factors: (4)   biological psychological social sociocultural  
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