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What is abnormal psychology concerned with? - correct answer understanding the nature, causes and treatment of mental disorders
What is family aggregation - correct answer whether a disorder runs in families
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Psyc 435 final
What is abnormal psychology concerned with? - correct answer understanding the nature, causes and treatment of mental disorders
What is family aggregation - correct answer whether a disorder runs in families
7 indicators of abnormailty - correct answer 1. subjective distress
2. maladaptiveness
3. statistical delivery
4. violation of the standards of society
5. social discomfort
6. irrationality and unpredictability
7. dangerousness
DSM definition of a mental disorder - correct answer A syndrome that is present
in an individual and that involves clinically significant disturbance in behaviour, emotional regulation or cognitive functioning
Advantages of classification - correct answer Provides us with nomenclature and enable us to structure information in a more helpful manner
Disadvantages of classification - correct answer Use of shorthand leads to a loss of information, there can be some stigma associated with a having a psychiatric diagnosis, and stereotyping
What is epidemiology - correct answer the study of the distribution of diseases, disorders or health related behaviours in a given population Difference between prevalence and incidence - correct answer prevalence refers to the number of active cases in a population, incidence refers to the number of new cases that occur over a given period of time
What is external validity - correct answer The extent to which we can generalize
results of a study
What is internal validity - correct answer The degree of confidence we can have in the results of a particular study
What is a correlation coefficient? - correct answer the strength of a correlation
What is statistical significance? - correct answer probability that results are due to chance
What is a meta analysis? - correct answer Statistical approach which calculates and then combines the effect sizes from studies
what is a longitudinal design? - correct answer a study that follows people over time and tries to identify factors that predate the onset of a disorder
what is an experimental research approach? - correct answer A study where researchers control all factors except one
What is an ABAB design? - correct answer A design that starts with controlled conditions, introduces treatment, removes the treatment, and then reintroduces the treatment. Recommended form of practice. Has more comparisons which allows for greater confidence in findings.
3 general categories of mental disorders according to hippocrates - correct answer 1. mania
2. melancholia
3. phrenitis (brain fever) hippocrates belief on mental disorders - correct answer Denied that demons intervened, instead insisted that mental disorders had natural causes. Believed that mental disorders were due to brain pathology.
Mahers four element theory - correct answer Four elements:
1. blood (sanguis)
2. phlem 3. bile (choler)
4. black bile (melancholia)
These fluids combined in different proportions in different individuals, and determines a person's temperament
plato's opinion on mental illness - correct answer Responses of the whole organism, reflecting its internal state. Such persons were not responsible for their acts and should not receive normal punishment.
aristotle's opinion on mental illness - correct answer agreed with aristotles theory of the bile, and thought very hot bile generated amorous desires, verbal fluency, and suicidal impulses
what country was the earliest civilization to attend to mental disorders - correct answer china, but then regressed to a belief in supernatural forces as causal agents
what is mass madness - correct answer the widespread occurrence of group behaviour disorders that were apparently cases of hysteria
what is tarantism - correct answer groups of people would suddenly start to jump, dance, and go into convulsions
What is lycanthropy? - correct answer A condition in which people believe themselves to be possessed by wolves what is pinel's experiment - correct answer tested his views that patients with mental illness should be treated with kindness. removed chains from patients, provided sunny rooms and permitted exercise
what is moral management? - correct answer emphasized the patients' moral and spiritual development and rehabilitation of their character rather than their disorders
what is the mental hygiene movement? - correct answer advocated the physical
well being of patients, received no help for mental problems, created by Dorothy Dix
what is neurasthenisia - correct answer an old condition that involved pervasive
feelings of low mood, lack of energy, and physical symptoms related to demands of civilization
what is the deinstitutionalization movement? - correct answer during the latter of the 20th century vigorous efforts were made to close down mental hospitals and return people who were psychiatrically disabled to the community, considered a more humane treatment
4 major themes in abnormal psychology in the 20th century - correct answer 1. biological discoveries
2. the development of a classification system for mental disorders
3. the emergence of psychological causation views
4. experimental psychological research developments
paresis-syphilis of the brain - correct answer produced paralysis and insanity, typically caused death within 2-5 years as a result of brain deterioration, treatment discovered in 1917
what are lobotomies and when were they used - correct answer an ice pick was used to sever the neural connections in the brain after entering through the eye sockets, used in 1920s
mesmer's opinion on mental illness - correct answer believed the planets affected a universal magnetic fluid in the body, the distribution of which determined health or disease
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