chapter 1 Flashcards
(35 cards)
A psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected.
a. Psychological dysfunction
b. Psychological distress
c. Psychological impairment
d. Abnormal behavior
d. Abnormal behavior
A psychological disorder characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object or situation.
a. Anxiety
b. Object fear disorder
c. Phobia
d. Specific phobia
c. Phobia
You are out on a date. However, you experience severe fear all evening and just want to go home, even though there is nothing to be afraidof, and the severe fear happens on every date you have.
a. Atypical response
b. Personal distress
c. Psychological dysfunction
d. None of the above
c. Psychological dysfunction
You are out on a date. However, you experience severe fear all evening and just want to go home.
a. Atypical response
b. Personal distress
c. Psychological dysfunction
d. None of the above
b. Personal distress
Describing the patients presenting problem which is represented by the unique combinationof behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that make up a specific disorder.
a. Clinical description
b. Etiology
c. Psychological Criteria
d. Psychopathology
a. Clinical description
The anticipated course of a disorder is called __.
a. Onset
b. Course
c. Prevalence
d. Prognosis
d. Prognosis
Schizophrenia follow an/a _________, meaning that they tend to last a long time, sometimes a lifetime
a. Episodic course
b. Chronic course
c. Acute onset
d. Insidious onset
b. Chronic course
Mood disorders follow an/a______, in that the individual is likely to recover within a few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder at a later time
a. Episodic course
b. Chronic course
c. Acute onset
d. Insidious onset
a. Episodic course
Some disorders have an/a _____, meaning that they begin suddenly; others develop gradually over an extended period, which is sometimes called an/a _____
a. Acute onset; insidious onset
b. Insidious onset; acute onset
c. Acute onset; chronic course
d. Insidious onset; chronic course
a. Acute onset; insidious onset
Number of people in the population as a whole that have the disorder: _______; new cases that occur during a given period: ______.
a. Incidence; prevalence
b. Prevalence; incidence
c. Onset; course
d. Course; onset
b. Prevalence; incidence
The individual will probably recover: _______; the probable outcome doesn’t look good: _____.
a. Good prognosis; bad prognosis
b. Good prognosis; guarded prognosis
c. Positive prognosis; negative prognosis
d. None of the above
b. Good prognosis; guarded prognosis
The study of changes in abnormal behavior.
a. Psychopathology
b. Developmental pathology
c. Developmental psychopathology
d. Developmental psychology
c. Developmental psychopathology
The study of origins, has to do with why a disorder begins (what causes it) and includes biological, psychological, and social dimensions.
a. Causality
b. Nosology
c. Epidemiology
d. Etiology
d. Etiology
Biological, psychological, and social influences contribute to the _____ of disorders.
a. Etiology
b. Factors
c. Causes
d. Process
a. Etiology
Biological, psychological, and social influences contribute to the _____ of disorders.
a. Etiology
b. Factors
c. Causes
d. Process
a. Etiology
If someone nearby becomes frightened or sad, chances are that for the moment you also will feel fear or sadness. This is a demonstration of ____
a. Emotion contagion
b. Hysteria
c. Mass hysteria
d. Conformity
a. Emotion contagion
He assumed that normal brain functioning was related to four bodily fluids or humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
a. Galen
b. Hippocrates
c. Philippe Pinel
d. Socrates
b. Hippocrates
The theory that asserts that abnormal brain functioning was related to four bodily fluids or humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.
a. Galenic theory
b. Hippocratic theory
c. Humoral theory
d. Fluid approach
c. Humoral theory
Dorothea Dix campaigned endlessly for reform in the treatment of insanity. Her work became known as the ______.
a. Moral therapy
b. Mental hygiene movement
c. Moral movement
d. Psychological reform movement
b. Mental hygiene movement
The therapeutic technique of recalling and reliving emotional trauma (that has been made unconscious) to release the accompanying tension.
a. Catharsis
b. Insight
c. Free association
d. Rational Emotive technique
a. Catharsis
Anna Freud: _______; Heinz Kohut: ________.
a. Ego psychology; self- psychology
b. Self-psychology; ego psychology
c. Self-psychology; object relations
d. Ego psychology; attachment theory
a. Ego psychology; self- psychology
According to _______, you tend to see the world through the eyes of the person incorporated into yourself.
a. object relations theory
b. psychoanalysis
c. self-psychology
d. attachment theory
a. object relations theory
Patients come to relate to the therapist: ______; Therapists project some of their own personal issues and feelings, usually positive, onto the patient: _______.
a. Countertransference; transference
b. Positive regard; unconditional positive regard
c. Transference; countertransference
d. unconditional positive regard; Positive regard
c. Transference; countertransference
Person-centered therapy with unconditional positive regard.
a. Behavioral model
b. moral therapy
c. psychoanalytic theory
d. humanistic theory
d. humanistic theory
