Test #1 Flashcards
Chapters 1-3 (40 cards)
This disorder diagnosis best describes a person who is incredibly uncomfortable when interacting with other people (if they can bring themselves to interact with others at all)
Social Phobia
A campus newspaper publishes an exam anxiety test that newspaper staffers put together one evening just before their publishing deadline. Despite its hasty construction, the test MOST likely has
Face Validity
Drugs that alleviate the symptoms of mental dysfunction by affecting the brain are called:
Psychotropics
An integral part of exposure therapy dictates that:
The patient doesn’t give up until they start to calm down
Internal validity reflects how well a study
Rules out the effect of all variables except those being studied
Humanists would say that an individual who cares about others and who is spontaneous, courageous, and independent is:
self-actualizing
Hippocrates’ contribution to the development of understanding mental illness was the view that such conditions were the result of:
natural causes
Aggressive behavior would NOT be viewed as abnormal in a:
Culture that emphasizes competitiveness
In the Middle Ages, outbreaks of tarantism were associated with people’s belief that they
Had been bitten by spiders
A cluster of symptoms that go together and define a mental disorder is called a
Syndrome
Which of the following phobias is MOST often associated with panic disorder
agoraphobia
A procedure used to treat anxiety disorder that forces the client to face his or her dreaded social situation until the fear subsides is:
exposure therapy
Thoughts, as well as overt behaviors, are acquired and modified by various forms of conditioning. The orientation of the author of this quote is MOST likely
Cognitive-behavioral
The Rosenthal effect
Should be avoided by using a masked design
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is used MOST often in the treatment of:
Depression
Which of the following types of operant conditioning most strongly explains why anxiety disorders may not go away on their own?
Negative reinforcement
If a panel of experts evaluate test results and clinical interviews with a client and all arrive at the same diagnosis, that diagnosis is said to have high
Interrater reliability
The prevalence rate for a disorder will ______ the incidence rate
Always be higher than
If a new test for assessing anorexic tendencies produces scores comparable to those of other tests for assessing anorexic tendencies, then the new test has high:
concurrent validity
Rita is seeing a gestalt therapist because she has anxiety about confronting her sister regarding painful interactions from their childhood. Which technique is her therapist MOST likely to recommend?
Role playing
Which model is MOST likely to suggest using free association to uncover unconscious processes?
psychodynamic
Which statement about distress is TRUE?
Distress is a subjective experience
In a study designed to test a new antidepressant, researchers randomly assigned a large number of psychiatric outpatients to one of two groups. Group A was given the active drug. Group B was given an identical-looking drug. Three psychologists independently used the Beck Depression Inventory to measure the participants level of depression after two weeks. The independent variable in this study was the …
Drug
A biological theorist studies a psychological disorder through the interconnectivity of an entire network of brain structures. This shows the recent belief that the key to psychological disorders lies in:
Brain circuits
