Mental Illness

Question 1

What is psychopathology caused by?

Answer 1

Organic defect

Question 2

How does the biological model see mental illnesses?

Answer 2

Disease

Question 3

What are individual differences in behaviour attributable to?

Answer 3

Differences in genetic makeup

Question 4

What are inherited genes?

Answer 4

Genotype

Question 5

What are observable characteristics?

Answer 5

Phenotype

Question 6

What length of alleles does it mean you’re more likely to suffer from severe from depression from maltreatment?

Answer 6

Two short alleles

Question 7

When was the first artificial human chromosome created?

Answer 7

1997

Question 8

Who developed the psychoanalysis model?

Answer 8

Freud

Question 9

What are the psychosexual stages of Freud’s psychodynamic model?

Answer 9

Oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital

Question 10

What are the psychosexual stages of Freud’s psychodynamic model?

Answer 10

Oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital

Question 11

What are does the behavioural model assume about abnormal behaviour?

Answer 11

It is learnt the same way other behaviour is learnt

Question 12

What is classical conditioning?

Answer 12

The process of learning by temporal association

Question 13

What is operant conditioning?

Answer 13

Process of learning through reinforcement

Question 14

What is modeling?

Answer 14

Process of acquiring repossessing through observation and imitation

Question 15

What does cognition emphasise?

Answer 15

Process of perceiving, recognising, judging and reasoning

Question 16

What are conditions of worth?

Answer 16

Standards by which people judge themselves, the stands win which they just conform to be acceptable

Question 17

What are conditions of worth?

Answer 17

Standards by which people judge themselves, the stands win which they just conform to be acceptable

Question 18

What is dysfunctioning?

Answer 18

Causes by self-deception hiding from ones life responsibilities and choices

Question 19

What does the humanistic-existential view on patients potential?

Answer 19

Patients as people whose special potential that has yet to be fulfilled and whose behaviour can be influenced by their innate goodness

Question 20

What rate is psychological abnormality more common in the lower socioeconomic classes then in the higher?

Answer 20

3x

Question 21

How many more women are diagnosed with anxiety and depression compared to that of men?

Answer 21

2x

Question 22

How many more women are diagnosed with anxiety and depression compared to that of men?

Answer 22

2x

Question 23

What is the fundamental attribution error?

Answer 23

The tendency of people, when explaining the behaviour of others, generally underestimate the influence of situations and overestimate the influence of personality traits

Question 24

What is the DSM-V?

Answer 24

Uniform manual of diagnosis, a widely accepted system for classifying psychology problems and disorders

Question 25

What is the DSM-V?

Answer 25

Uniform manual of diagnosis, a widely accepted system for classifying psychology problems and disorders

Question 26

Whats comorbidity?

Answer 26

A person meets the criteria for more than one disorder at a time

Question 27

Which key development in the 1950s helped strengthen the biological model?

Answer 27

The development of effective psychotropic drugs

Question 28

What is the name given to the bias whereby people judge the probability of an event by the ease at which an example comes to mind?

Answer 28

The availability heuristic

Question 29

According to Freud, the ego operates according to

Answer 29

The Reality Principle

Question 30

What are reciprocal gene-environemnt interactions?

Answer 30

Genes may predispose people to create certain environments (e.g. break ups)

Question 31

What do low levels of serotonin cause?

Answer 31

Eatings disorders, depression, alcoholism

Question 32

What do low levels of serotonin cause?

Answer 32

Eatings disorders, depression, alcoholism

Question 33

What is the libido?

Answer 33

Sensual energy, that fuels: ID ego & superego

Question 34

What does the ID operate in accordance with?

Answer 34

Pleasure Principles and uses primary process thinking

Question 35

What does the ego operate in accordance with?

Answer 35

Reality principle and uses secondary process thinking

Question 36

What does the ego develop to control unacceptable ID impulses to avoid or reduce anxiety

Answer 36

Defence mechanisms

Question 37

What has the psychodynamic model helped us understand?

Answer 37

That abnormal functioning may be rooter in the same processes that underlie normal functioning