1-4 Mid-Term

Question 1

Abnormal Behavior

Answer 1

clinically significant behavioral/psychological syndrome or pattern in a person associated w distress/disability or risk of death, pain, disability, or loss of freedom

Question 2

Abnormal Psychology

Answer 2

scientific study to describe, explain, predict, control behaviors that are strange/unusual

Question 3

Biopsychosocial Model for Diagnosis of Disorders

Answer 3

idea that mental disorders are the result of interaction of biological, psychological, & social factors

Question 4

Cathartic Method (Catharsis)

Answer 4

therapeutic use of verbal expression to release pent-up emotional conflicts

Question 5

Managed Health Care

Answer 5

industrialization of health care, large organizations in private sector control service delivery

Question 6

Psychopathology

Answer 6

clinical term = abnormal behavior

Question 7

Therapy

Answer 7

systematic intervention to modify client’s behavioral, affective(emotional) or cognitive state

Question 8

Axon

Answer 8

extension of the cell body that sends signals to neurons

Question 9

Behavioral Model

Answer 9

model of psychopathology concerned with the role of learning in abnormal behavior

Question 10

Humanistic Model

Answer 10

optimistic view that people are born with the ability to fulfill their potential and abnormal behavior is from disharmony between their potential and their self-concept

Question 11

Cognitive Model

Answer 11

assumption that conscious thought mediates an individual’s emotional state and/or behavior in response to a stimulus

Question 12

Psychodynamic Model

Answer 12

disorders are result of childhood trauma or anxieties, childhood anxieties operate unconsciously

Question 13

Family Systems Model

Answer 13

behavior of one family member directly affects the entire family system

Question 14

Defense Mechanisms

Answer 14

Psychoanalytic theory, ego protection strategy sheltering from anxiety, unconscious, distorts reality

Question 15

Dendrite

Answer 15

short rootlike structure on the cell body whose function is to receive signals from other neurons

Question 16

Neurotransmitter

Answer 16

Chemical substance released by the axon of the sending neuron and involved in the transmission of neural impulses to the dendrite of the receiving neuron

Question 17

Psycho Sexual Stages of Development

Answer 17

psychodynamic theory: oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital stages of human personality

Question 18

Transference

Answer 18

patient reenacts early conflicts by carrying over and applying to the analyst feelings and attitudes toward significant others in the past

Question 19

Agoraphobia

Answer 19

intense fear of being in public places where escape or help may not be readily available

Question 20

Anxiety Disorder

Answer 20

fear or anxiety symptoms that interfere with an individual’s day-to-day functioning

Question 21

Compulsions

Answer 21

the need to perform acts or to dwell on thoughts to reduce anxiety

Question 22

Obsessions

Answer 22

intrusive, repetitive thought or image that produces anxiety

Question 23

Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

Answer 23

disorder characterized by obsessions or compulsions

Question 24

Panic Attacks

Answer 24

intense fear accompanied by symptoms such as pounding heart, trembling, shortness of breath, or fear of losing control or dying

Question 25

Phobia

Answer 25

strong, persistent, and unwarranted fear of some specific object or situation

Question 26

Social Phobia

Answer 26

intense, excessive fear of being scrutinized in one ore more social or performance situations

Question 27

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Answer 27

preoccupation w imagined defect in appearance in a normal-appearing person or an excessive concern over slight defect

Question 28

Conversion Disorder

Answer 28

physical problems or impairments in sensory or motor functioning, suggests neurological disorder with no organic cause

Question 29

Dissociative Disorder

Answer 29

grp: amnesia, fugue, identity disorder; dissociation, separation of person's consciousness, memory or identity

Question 30

Dissociative Fugue

Answer 30

confusion over personal identity, with unexpected travel from home : new identity

Question 31

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Answer 31

two or more independent personalities appear in one person

Question 32

Hypochondriasis

Answer 32

persistent preoccupation with health and physical condition, no organic problems

Question 33

Somatization Disorder

Answer 33

chronic complaints of bodily symptoms with no physical basis

Question 34

Acute Stress Disorder

Answer 34

anxiety and dissociative symptoms that occur within one moth after exposure to traumatic stressor

Question 35

General adaption syndrome

Answer 35

3stage model for understanding the body's physical and psychological reactions to biological stressors.

Question 36

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

Answer 36

anxiety, dissociative, and other symptoms that last for more than one month and that occur as a result of exposure to extreme trauma

Question 37

Psychophysiological Disorder

Answer 37

physical disorder that has strong psychological basis/component

Question 38

Stress

Answer 38

internal psychological or physiological response to a stressor

Question 39

Stressors

Answer 39

external events/situations that place physical or psychological demand on a person

Question 40

Tension Headaches vs Migraine Headaches

Answer 40

prolonged contraction of scalp & neck muscles, resulting in vascular constriction & steady pain... v moderate to severe pain resulting from constriction of the cranial arteries followed by dilation of the cerebral blood vessels