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Chapters 1&3 Flashcards

Info and questions from the ppt notes, lecture and mastery quizzes for chapter 1 and 3

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Name 4 myths/misconceptions about abn behavior.

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Weak character
Morally/Spiritually inferior
Dangerous
Mental illness is hopeless

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Abnormal behavior is generally defines by what 4 things?

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Deviance
distress
dysfunction
Danger (to self/others)

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Three historically dominant traditional causes of abn behavior are:

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the supernatural, biological, psychological

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The Greeks thought that this caused abnormal behavior:

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Red Bile: cheerful, optimistic, possibly manic
Black BIle: Depressive
Yellow Bile: Short tempered
Phlegm: Low energy. apathetic

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1930’s treatment of abnormal behavior

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Biological treatments
Insulin Shock therapy
ECT
Brain surgery (lobotomy)

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1950’s treatment of abnormal behavior

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Medications were established to help
Neuroleptics
Tranqs

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Reasons for the decline of moral therapy

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financial
Over crowding
biological theories

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Father of the psychoanalytic tradition

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Freud

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Levels of consciousness

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Conscious
Preconscious
unconscious

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Psychic structure

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Id, Ego, Super Ego

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Humanistic Theory

who?

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Rodgers

Maslow

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Treatment under the humanistic theory

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empathy and positive regard (unconditional)

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Pavlov

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Classical conditioning

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14
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Skinner

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Operant conditioning

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15
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Beck

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Cognitive therapy

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Bandura

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Social learning

Cognitive behavioral therapy

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17
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Psychopathology today is:

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multiply disciplinary

There are reciprocal relationships between biological,social, emotional and cognitive factors

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Current trends in Abnormal Psychology/behavior treatment

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treating people with severe disturbances as well as mild/moderate disturbances
Emphasis on prevention
multicultural psychology

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Descriptive/ correlational designs

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case studies
surveys
naturalistic observation
epidemiological studies
longitudinal studies
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The purposes of clinical assessment: (3)

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to understand the individual
to plan treatment
to evaluate treatment outcome

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What concepts determine the value of an assessment?

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Reliability

Validity

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The clinical interview

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is the most common clinical assessment method
can be structured or non structured
content can include:
presenting problem (description/duration)
Social history (family, school, occupational, relationship)
medical history

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Mental status exam includes:

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Appearance and behavior
thought processes 
mood and affect
intellectual functioning
sensorioum
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Projective tests

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are composed of ambiguous stimuli
roots in psychoanalytic tradition

examples:
Rorschach Inkblot test
Thematic Apperception Test

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Objective tests
test stimuli are less ambiguous | roots in empirical tradition
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Objective personality tests
MMPI,MMPI-2, MMPI-A 567 T/F questions extensive reliability, validity and normative database.
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Intelligence tests
include verbal IQ, Performance IQ,Full scale IQ
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Neuropsychological Tests
MRI,fMRI, CT/CAT scan, PET scan, EEG
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DSM-IV-TR
The version that we are using now Text Revision
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DSM-IV: What is it?
Made up of 5 axes clear inclusion and exclusion criteria for disorders Disorders are categorized under broad headings
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Axis I
Clinical syndromes-
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Axis II
Stable enduring problems (mental retardation and personality disorders)
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Axis III
Medical conditions
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Axis IV
Psychosocial stresses (good and bad)
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Axis V
Global assessment of functioning on a number scale from 1-100 75 or higher- Good 40-50- not so great The closer to 0 you are the worse off you are.
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A society's stated and unstated rules for proper conduct are:
norms
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He believes that the whole concept of mental illness is invalid and is a myth:
Szasz
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Scott was admitted to the hospital after Dr. Arnold determined that Scott had a plan to commit suicide. This is an example of which of the four D's?
Dangerous
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He stated that all forms of therapy have three key factors:
Frank
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He stated that "therapists are not in agreement as to their goals or aims...it seems as though the field is completely chaotic and divided."
Rogers
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A group of friends decided to "let off some steam" and went to the local junkyard everyday to destroy some cars. This is not considered an example of therapy because:
There is a series of systematic contacts between the sufferer and the inanimate objects
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In any given year, as many as_______% of the adults and ________% of the children and adolescents in the US display serious psychological disturbances and are in need of clinical treatment.
30; 19
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The is now considered the father of American Psychiatry:
Rush
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These medications lift the mood of depressed people
Antidepressants
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This is the study and enhancement of positive feelings,traits and abilities:
positive psychology
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On any given day,there are _______individuals with severe psychological disturbances who are inmates of jails and prisons.
135,000
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Dr Haigen published a book based on his 20 years as a forensic psychologist. He included numerous accounts or _______ of various patients he worked with.
Case studies.
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This experiment makes use of the real world, rather than the experimenter manipulating the independent variables:
Natural experiement
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Rico's family chose to celebrate Christmas Eve by cooking a variety of foods only prepared once a year in celebration of the Christmas holiday. This is an example of one's:
Culture
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John's family had a difficult time understanding why he chose to wear an overcoat,a hat and gloves during the summer. This is an example of which of the four D's?
Deviance
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While there are numberous definitions of abnormality,most definitions share what four things?
Deviance, distress, danger, dysfunction
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He was a Viennese physician who developed the theory of psychoanalysis
Freud
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This is the view that the abnormal psychological functionin has physical causes
Somatogenic perspective
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If you lived during the times of the ancient egyptians a typical treatment to rid you of your demons would have been
Exorcism
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Before the 1950's psychotherapy was offered only by
Psychiatrists
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Volunteers in the mulitnational anxiety trial were told that they would not know which treatment they would be receiving as this was a :
blind design
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The case study is limited by a lack of:
objective evidence
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This is the research procedure used to determine how much events/characteristics vary along with each other
Correlational method
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George was tormented by the depreciating voices that he kept hearing. This is an example of which of the four D's?
Distress
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The somatogenic perspective did not benefit patients until the discovery of psychotropic medications in the
1950s
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The asylum first became popular in the_____ century as a way to provide care for the persons with mental disorders.
16th
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At least ____% of all privately insured persons in the US are currently enrolled in managed care plans.
75%
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Only ____% of people with severe psychological disturbances currently receive treatment.
40%
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This experiment makes use of control and experimental groups that already exist in the world at large.
Quasi-experimental
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This is a research method in which the experimenter produces abnormal like behavior in lab participants and then conducts experiments on the participants.
Analogue experiments
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He founded the york retreat where in patients were treated with a combination of rest, talk, prayer and manual work.
Tuke
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These medications correct extremely confused and distorted thinking
Anti-psychotics
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On any given day, at least _____ individuals with severe psychologicla disturbances receive treatment of any kind
100,000
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Idiographic
Individual information about a patient.
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Assessment
the collecting of relevant information in an effort to reach a conclusion
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Idiographic understanding
an understanding of the behavior of a particular individual
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Standardization
The process in which a test is administered to a large group of people whose performance then serves as a standard or norm against which any individual's score can be measured
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reliability
a measure of the consistency of a test or research result
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Validity
the accuracy of a test's or study's results; that is, the extent to which the test or study actually measures/shows what it claims
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Predictive validity
a tool's ability to predict future characteristics or behavior.
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concurrent validity
the degree to which the measures gathered from one tool agree with the measures gathered from other assessment techniques.
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Psychodynamic interviews
try to learn about the person's needs and memories of past events and relationships
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Behavioral Interviews
try to pinpoint information about the stimuli that trigger responses and their consequences
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Cognitive interviews
try to discover assumptions and interpretations that influence the person.
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Humanistic interviews
ask about the person's self evaluation, self concept, and values
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Biological clinicians
look for signs of biochemical or brain dysfunction
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Sociocultural interviews
ask about family,social and cultural environments
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Mental status exam
a set of questions and observations that systematically evaluate the client's awareness, orientation with regard to time and place, attention span, memory, judgement and insight, thought content and processes, mood and appearance
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test
a device for gathering information about a few aspects of a person's psychological functioning from which broader information about the person can be inferred
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Projective test
a test consisting of ambiguous material that people interpret or respond to
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Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)
projective test, consisting of pictures with people and objects on them. The patient must tell a story about each one.
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Personality inventories
A test designed to measure broad personality characteristics, consisting of statements about behaviors, beliefs and feelings that people evaluate as either characteristic or uncharacteristic
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Response inventories
Tests designed to measure a person's responses in one specific area of functioning,such as affect,social skills or cognitive processes.

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