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Psyc 435 Final Exam Questions With Correct Answers What is abnormal psychology concerned with? - answerunderstanding the nature, causes and treatment of mental disorders What is family aggregation - answerwhether a disorder runs in families 7 indicators of abnormailty - answer1. subjective dis...

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Psyc 435 Final Exam Questions With Correct
Answers


What is abnormal psychology concerned with? - answer✔understanding the nature, causes and

treatment of mental disorders


What is family aggregation - answer✔whether a disorder runs in families


7 indicators of abnormailty - 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 - answer✔A syndrome that is present in an individual and

that involves clinically significant disturbance in behaviour, emotional regulation or cognitive

functioning

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Advantages of classification - answer✔Provides us with nomenclature and enable us to structure

information in a more helpful manner


Disadvantages of classification - 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 - answer✔the study of the distribution of diseases, disorders or health

related behaviours in a given population


Difference between prevalence and incidence - 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 - answer✔The extent to which we can generalize results of a study


What is internal validity - answer✔The degree of confidence we can have in the results of a

particular study


What is a correlation coefficient? - answer✔the strength of a correlation


What is statistical significance? - answer✔probability that results are due to chance


What is a meta analysis? - answer✔Statistical approach which calculates and then combines the

effect sizes from studies

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what is a longitudinal design? - 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? - answer✔A study where researchers control all

factors except one


What is an ABAB design? - 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 - answer✔1. mania


2. melancholia

3. phrenitis (brain fever)


hippocrates belief on mental disorders - 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 - answer✔Four elements:


1. blood (sanguis)

2. phlem

3. bile (choler)

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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 - 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 - 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 - answer✔china, but then

regressed to a belief in supernatural forces as causal agents


what is mass madness - answer✔the widespread occurrence of group behaviour disorders that

were apparently cases of hysteria


what is tarantism - answer✔groups of people would suddenly start to jump, dance, and go into

convulsions


What is lycanthropy? - answer✔A condition in which people believe themselves to be possessed

by wolves

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