Ch 1 & 2

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Dysfunction

Answer 0

Interferes with daily function

Question 1

Deviance

Answer 1

Variance from common patterns of behavior

Question 2

Danger

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Most people with mental illness do not pose a danger to themselves or others

Question 3

Elusive nature of abnormality

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Criteria for abnormality can be vague and subjective

Question 4

Eccentricity example

Answer 4

Man who lives alone with two dozen cats

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Treatment

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Procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior

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General paresis

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Irreversible disorder with both physical and mental symptoms

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Hypnotism

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Procedure that places people in a trance like mental state during which they become extremely suggestible

Question 8

Psychoanalysis

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Freudian theory which holds that many forms of abnormal and normal psychological functioning are psychogenic; unconsciousness is at the root of the dis functioning

Question 9

Psychotropic medication

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Drugs that primarily affect the brain and reduce many symptoms of mental dysfunctioning

Question 10

Deinstitutionalization

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The discharge of large number of patients beginning in 60s from long term institutional care so they may be treated in community programs

Question 11

Community health approach

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Helpful for many but too few programs are available to address needs in US

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Private psychotherapy

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An agreement by which an individual directly pays a psychotherapist for counseling services; insurance now often covers the costs

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Prevention

Answer 13

Key feature of comm health programs that seek to prevent or minimize psych disorders

Question 14

Positive psychology
Definition
Major ideas

Answer 14

Study and enhancement of positive feelings and traits and abilities. The idea is to promote positive development and psych wellness and coping skills are taught that protect from stress

Question 15

Multicultural psychology

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Examines impact of culture race and ethnicity on our behaviors and thoughts and focuses on how they influence abnormal behavior

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Managed care

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A program in which the insurance company determines such key issues as which therapists it’s clients may choose, the cost of sessions, and the number of sessions for which a client may be reimbursed

Question 17

Psychiatrists

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Prescribe medication and complete residency after med school

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Clinical psychologists

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PhD in psych and one year internship

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Clinical researchers

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Conduct studies on abnormal psych functioning

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Humors

Answer 20

Fluids that flow through body

Question 21

How did Hippocrates treat?

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Quiet life
Vegetables
Temperance and exercise

Question 22

Middle Ages treatment methods

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Demonology

Question 23

Rise of asylums occurred when?

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Renaissance

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First physician to specialize in mental illness

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Johann weyer

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Somatogenic perspective

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View that abnormal psychological functioning has physical causes

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Psychogenic perspective

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View that cause of abnormal functioning are psychological

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Results of biological approaches throughout first half of twentieth century

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Mostly disappointing

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What did Hippocrates teach?

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Mental illness had natural causes that arose from internal physical problems

Question 29

Did mesmerism work?

Answer 29

Surprisingly yes on many patients

Question 30

What made hypnotism special?

Answer 30

Hysterical disorders could be induced in normal people

Question 31

Technique of psychoanalysis

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A form of discussion in which clinicians help troubled people gain insight into their unconscious psychological processes

Question 32

Psychoanalysis was used mostly on whom?

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Patients with anxiety or depression that didn't require hospitalization

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Anti psychotic drugs

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Correct extremely confused and distorted thinking

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Antidepressant drugs

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Lift moods of depressed people

Question 35

_______ % of all privately ensured persons in the US are currently enrolled in managed care programs.

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At least 75%

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Is the managed care program liked or disliked in general?

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Disliked by both parties

Question 37

How did mesmer's treatments work? What was it called?

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Patients sit in a darkened room with music, then he appeared in colorful costume and touched the troubled area of the patients body Called mesmerism

Question 38

Mysterious bodily ailments with no apparent physical basis

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Hysterical disorders

Question 39

Hypnotism dates back when?

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1778 when Mesmer established a clinic

Question 40

Eccentricity

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Unusual pattern with which others have no right to interfere; not necessarily abnormal behavior

Question 40

Trephination

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Stone Age treatment in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a part of the skull in severely abnormal patients

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Melancholia

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Extreme sadness and immobility

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Earlier societies attributed abnormal behavior to _______.

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Demons

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Father of modern medicine

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Hippocrates

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Nomethic understanding

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General understanding of the nature causes and treatment of abnormal psychological functioning in the form of laws or principles

Question 40

Internal validity

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The accuracy with which a study can pinpoint one of various possible factors as the cause of phenomenon

Question 40

External validity

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The extent to which the results may be generalized to the outside world beyond that study

Question 40

Correlation coefficient

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r- magnitude of the correlation

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Incidence- epidemiological studies

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Number of new cases that emerge during a given period of time

Question 40

Prevalence of epidemiological studies

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Total number of cases in the population during a given time period but also includes existing cases

Question 40

Quasi experiment

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Making use of groups that already exist in the world

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Natural experiment

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Nature manipulated the IV itself and experimenter observes the effects

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Analogue experiment

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Abnormal behavior is produced in the lab and then examined

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Disadvantages of case studies

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Biased observers Subjective evidence Low external validity

Question 51

Single subject experiment

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One person is observed and measured before and after IV manipulation