Abnormal Psychology

Question 1

This is a psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not culturally typical. What is it?

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A psychological disorder or abnormal behavior

Question 2

A psychological disorder characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object or situation.

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Phobia

Question 3

What is the type of breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning?

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Psychological Dysfunction

Question 4

What is it called when an individual is extremely upset regarding a situation, object, or person?

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Personal Distress

Question 5

What is it called when an individual isn’t able to function properly in important areas of life?

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Psychological Impairment or Disability

Question 6

When an individual strays away from the normal range of a culture, what is it called?

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Deviance or Culturally Atypical

Question 7

It is a typical profile used to identify or classify if an individual has a disorder.

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Prototype

Question 8

What is the scientific study of psychological disorders- its nature, symptomatology, development?

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Psychopathology

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A study that investigates the nature and causes of psychological disorders, often from a biological point of view, making diagnoses, and treatments through psychopharmaceuticals or therapy.

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Psychiatry

Question 10

Who are the mental health professionals who take a scientific approach to their clinical work?

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Scientist-Practitioners

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What are the three functions of scientist-practitioners?

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1. Keep up with latest scientific development
2. Evaluate own treatment procedures of it works
3. Conduct research to produce new information

Question 12

This is the term of clinicians when a patient reveals or shows a specific problem or set of problems.

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Presenting Problem

Question 13

After the patient’s presenting problem, this following term is called when the clinician determines the patients problem through observed or tested unique combination of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that make up a specific disorder. What is it called?

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Clinical Description

Question 14

“How many people in the population as a whole have the disorder?” The answer to this question is identified as the ___ of the disorder.

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Prevalence

Question 15

___ of the disorder is identified through statistics on how many cases of it occur during a given period.

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Incidence

Question 16

What is the type of statistics used to identify what percentage of males and females have the said disorder?

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Sex Ratio

Question 17

This pertains to the starting age of symptoms showing.

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Age onset

Question 18

What are the three types of courses or individual patterns used by clinicians to identify the disorders’ time element?

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1. Chronic course
2. Episodic course
3. Time-limited course

Question 19

It is a disorder’s individual pattern where it’s characterized by it to last a long time, sometimes a lifetime.

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Chronic course

Question 20

What type of course within a disorder characterizes on an individual’s possible recovery within a few months but may suffer recurrence at a later time?

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Episodic course

Question 21

What course is mentioned if a disorder will improve without treatment in a relatively short period?

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Time-limited Course

Question 22

If there is a course in disorders, there are also onsets. What are the two onsets called?

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1. Acute onset

2. Insidious onset

Question 23

What type of onset when symptoms of a disorder begin suddenly?

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Acute onset

Question 24

When symptoms develop gradually over an extended period, what onset is this?

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Insidious onset

Question 25

If it is mentioned as 'good' that means that an individual will probably recover as what the clinician expexted because it is the anticipated course of the disorder. What is this process?

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Prognosis

Question 26

What is the study of changes in behavior over time?

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Developmental psychology

Question 27

What is the study of changes in abnormal behavior called?

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Developmental Psychopathology

Question 28

It is the study of origins or what causes a disorder through using different dimensions like biology, psychology, and socio-culturally.

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Etiology

Question 29

What are the three models of abnormal behavior?

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1. Supernatural model 2. Biological model 3. Psychological model

Question 30

What is the model that conceptualizes that divinities, demons, spirits, or phenomena such as magnetic fields or the moon influences our behavior?

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Supernatural model

Question 31

Maria should recover quickly with no intervention necessary. Without treatment, John will deteriorate rapidly. What is the clinical description elaborated here?

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Prognosis

Question 32

Three cases of bulimia have been reported in this county during the past month. What is the clinical description elaborated here?

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Incidence

Question 33

Elizabeth visited the campus mental health center because of her increasin feelings of guilt and anxiety. What is the clinial description used here?

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Presenting Problem

Question 34

20mil people over the whole since the beginning of time were recorded to have obsessive-compulsive disorder. What is the clinical description used here?

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Prevalence

Question 35

This is a treatment in which various religious rituals were performed in an effort to rid victims of evil spirits through flogging, confining in coffins, isolation, etc. What is this treatment?

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Exorcism

Question 36

He is one of the chief advisers of the king of France who suggested that the disease of melancholy(depression) was the source of some bizarre behavior rather than demons. Who is s/he?

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Nicholas Oresme

Question 37

A form of treatment where patients were shocked back to their senses by applications of ice-cold water.

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Hydrotherapy

Question 38

A bizarre behavior in europe where groups were simultaneously compelled to run, dance, shout, rave, and jump around in patterns.

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Saint Vitus's Dance, tarantism, or mass hysteria

Question 39

What phenomenon occurs when the experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us?

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Mass hsyteria or emotion contagion

Question 40

He is the swiss physician who conceptualized how movements of the moon and stars affect an individual's psychological functioning.

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Paracelsus

Question 41

A body of work called ___ was written where it suggests that psychological disorders could be treated like any other disease.

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Hoppocratic Corpus

Question 42

Who is the father of modern western medicine?

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Hippocrates

Question 43

What is the doctrine that an evil being or spirit can dwell within a person and control his or her mind?

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Demonology

Question 44

Cutting of holes of the skull so that the evil spirits can exit the individual.

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Trephination

Question 45

Who conceptualized the four humors and three categories of mentality?

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Hippocrates

Question 46

What are the three categories?

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1. Mania 2. Melancholia 3. Phrenitis

Question 47

What are the four humors?

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1. Blood 2. Black bile 3. Yellow bile 4. Phlegm

Question 48

A known establishment for the confinement and care of mentally ill people.

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Asylum

Question 49

One of the first mental institution that eventually became London's great tourist attraction.

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Priory of St. Mary of Bethlehem

Question 50

He was one in the earlier times who suggested thay treatment for the mentally ill requires drawing out copious amounts of blood.

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Benjamin Rush

Question 51

He suggested people to treat the patients as sick humans rather than beasts. His concept eventually stemmed as he pioneered the humanitarian treatment at LaBicetre.

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Philippe Pinel

Question 52

A kind of treatment privately funded and seeks patient's alleviation by encouraging them to engage in purposeful calming activities.

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Moral treatment

Question 53

She was the crusader for prisoners and mentally ill who urged improvement of institutions and that hospitals should be staffed with physicians which is termed as the 'mental hygiene movement'.

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Dorothea Dix

Question 54

This is the degenerative disorder that has psychological symptoms thus making the healers believe that if this sickness has a biological cause, other mental illness might also.

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General paresis

Question 55

Who was the one who proposed that mental illness can be inherited?

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Francis Galton

Question 56

It is the promotion of enforced sterilization to eliminate undesirable charscteristics from the populafion. Many state laws require the mentally ill to be sterilized. What is it?

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Eugenics

Question 57

He was the proponent of insulin-coma therapy

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Manfred Sakel (1927)

Question 58

It is the process of inducing epileptic seizures using electric shock.

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Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT)

Question 59

Who were the proponent/s of ECT?

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Cerletti and Bini

Question 60

This a procedure done to the mentally ill that often led to listlessness, apathy, and lack of some cognitive abilities.

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Prefrontal lobotomy

Question 61

He was the proponent of prefrontal lobotomy?

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Egas Moniz

Question 62

He was the first to call mental illness as a syndrome having cluster of symptoms that co-occur. He also proposed two major syndromes and published the 1st psychiatry text on 1883.

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Emil Kraepelin

Question 63

What are the two major syndromes coined by Emil Kraepelin?

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1. Dementia praecox | 2. Manic-depressive psychosis

Question 64

He proposed treating patients with hysteria using 'animal magnetism' and is an early practitioner of hypnosis.

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Franz Mesmer

Question 65

He was the who used hypnosis to facilitate catharsis.

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Josef Breuer

Question 66

The procees of releasing emotional tension triggered by reliving and talking about events.

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Catharsis

Question 67

It is a theory that claims how human behavior is determined by unconscious forces and how psychopathology results from conflicts among these unconscious forces.

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Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory

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What are the structures of the mind mentioned by freud?

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1. Id 2. Ego 3. Superego

Question 69

What are the Levels of the Mind by Freud?

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1. Unconscious 2. Preconscious 3. Conscious

Question 70

What is the structure of the mind that is driven by libido and desires immediate gratification? It is also called the pleasure principle.

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Id

Question 71

It is a structure of the mind influenced by incorporating parental and society values and is sometimes called the conscience.

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Superego

Question 72

What's the structure of the mind that attempts to satisfy the pleasure principle but within the constraints of reality?

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Ego

Question 73

What are the five stages of Freud's Psychosexual Development Theory? Rank from earliest stage to adulthood stage

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1. Oral (0-18 mos) 2. Anal (18- 3 yo) 3. Phallic (3-5/6 yo) 4. Latency 6-12 yo) 5. Genital (adulthood)

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This psychosexual stage's primary organ needed to be satisfied is the mouth.

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Oral

Question 75

The psychosexual stage where pleasure is derived from the sexual organs.

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Phallic Stage

Question 76

What are the psychological maneuvers used to manage stress and anxiety?

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Defense Mechanisms

Question 77

Patient tries to say whatever comes to mind without censoring anything.

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Free association

Question 78

When the patient responds to the analyst in ways he has previously responded to other important figures in his or her life, what is this process called?

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Transference

Question 79

He is the founder of analytical psychology and emphasized greatly about freudian and humanistic psychology and the collective unconscious.

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Carl Gustav Jung

Question 80

He is the founder of Individual Psychology and emphasized that there will be fulfillment in a person's life from working for the social good.

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Alfred Adler

Question 81

The founder of Behaviorism who claimed that learning or classical conditioning is a more in depth study to identify behavior.

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John Watson

Question 82

He is the one who experimented with dogs and is the founder of operant conditioning. He claimed that learning through association is effective and may affect someone's behavior.

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Ivan Pavlov

Question 83

The fours elements of learning from ivan pavlov's concept are?

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1. Unconditioned Stimulus 2. Conditioned Stimulus 3. Unconditioned Response 4. Conditioned Response

Question 84

They are the ones who classically conditioned Little Albert's fear of white furry objects.

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Watson and Raynor

Question 85

He proposed the law of effect and that learning through consequences is effective.

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Edward Thorndike

Question 86

He proposed the principle of reinforcement.

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B.F. Skinner

Question 87

What are the two types of reinforcement?

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Positive and Negative

Question 88

It is a principle of reinforcement that focuses on how behaviors that terminate a negative stimulus are strengthened.

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Negative reinforcement

Question 89

Behaviors followed by pleasant stimuli are strengthened.

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Positive reinforcement

Question 90

Modeling Theory is introduced by?

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Albert Bandura

Question 91

Experimented and concluded that modeling reduced kids' fear of dogs.

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Bandura and Menlove

Question 92

Two types of strongly used behavior therapy

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1. Systematic Desensitization | 2. Aversive Conditioning

Question 93

It is the type of therapy where people construe themselves as who they think they are and that the world is a major determinant of psychological disorder.

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Cognitive Therapy and Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy