Abpsych ch.1 Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Abnormal psychology is concerned with ___, ___, ___, and ___ abnormal behavior. | describing explaining predicting controlling |
| 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) |
| cultural relativism | deviancy is defined by culture |
| cultural universality | the same mental disorders exist across all cultures |
| What three vantage points should we consider when judging someone's mental health? | individual society mental health professional |
| DSM-IV-TR definition | published by the American Psychiatric Association and provides a common language and standard criteria for the classification of mental disorders |
| DSM-IV-TR places primary emphasis on ____ of certain syndromes. | consequences |
| prevalence | percentage of people in a given pop. who suffer from a disorder at a given point in time. |
| lifetime prevalence | total proportion of a people in the population who have ever had a disorder in their lives |
| incidence | the onset or occurrence of a given disorder over some period of time |
| two early methods of curing mental illness | trephining exorcism |
| greco roman categories for mental illness (3) and who created them? | mania melancholia phrenitis hippocrates 400BC |
| middle ages reversion to _____ explanations | supernatural (brutal exorcisms and mass hysteria, group madness) |
| the renaissance brought more _____ treatment of the mentally ill with the exception of _____. | humane witch hunts |
| early viewpoints on the causes of mental illness: (3) | biological psychological behavioral |
| syndromes | certain symptoms that occur together in clusters (unique cause, course, and outcome) |
| a progressively degenerative and irreversible physical and mental disorder | general paresis |
| who created the cathartic method? what was this a forerunner to? | josef breuer freud's psychoanalysis |
| what is behaviorism? | stresses the importance of learning and behavior in explanations of normal and abnormal development |
| multipath model factors: (4) | biological psychological social sociocultural |
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