Chapter 1

Question 1

Mental Disorder

Answer 1

Psychological symptoms or behavioral patterns that reflect an underlying psychobiological dysfunction, are associated with distress or disability, and are not merely an expectable response to common stressors or losses

Question 2

Mental Illness

Answer 2

A mental health condition that negatively affects a person’s emotions, thinking, behavior, relationships with others, or overall functioning

Question 3

Abnormal Psychology

Answer 3

The scientific study whose objectives are to describe. explain, predict, and modify behaviors associated with mental disorders

Question 4

Psychopathology

Answer 4

The study of symptoms, causes, and treatments of mental disorders

Question 5

Mental Health Professional

Answer 5

Health care practitioners whose services focus on improving mental health or treating mental illness

Question 6

Psychodiagnosis

Answer 6

An assessment and description of an individual’s psychological symptoms including interferences about what might be causing psychological distress

Question 7

Treatment Plan

Answer 7

A proposed course of therapy, developed collaboratively by a therapist and client that addresses the client’s most distressing symptoms

Question 8

Etiology

Answer 8

The cause or causes for a condition

Question 9

Psychotherapy

Answer 9

A program of systemic intervention with the purpose of improving a client’s behavioral, emotional, or cognitive symptoms

Question 10

Prevalence

Answer 10

The percentage of individuals in a targeted pop. who have a particular disorder during a particular period of time

Question 11

Lifetime Prevalence

Answer 11

The percentage of people in the pop. who have had a disorder at some point in their lives

Question 12

Stereotypes

Answer 12

An oversimplified, often inaccurate, image or idea about a group of people

Question 13

Social Stigma

Answer 13

A negative societal belief about a group, including the view that the group is somehow different from other members

Question 14

Prejudice

Answer 14

An unfair, preconceived judgement about a person or group based on supposed characteristics

Question 15

Discrimination

Answer 15

Unjust or prejudicial treatment toward a person based on the persons actual or perceived membership in a certain group

Question 16

Self Stigma

Answer 16

Acceptance of prejudice and discrimination based on internalized negative societal beliefs or stereotypes

Question 17

Self efficiency

Answer 17

Belief in oneself to succeed

Question 18

Trephining

Answer 18

A surgical method from the stone age in which part of the skull was chipped away to provide an opening through which an evil spirit could escape

Question 19

Exorcism

Answer 19

A practice used to cast evil spirits out of an afflicted person’s body

Question 20

Hysteria

Answer 20

An outdated term referring to excessive or uncontrollable emotion, sometimes resulting in somatic symptoms that have no apparent physical cause

Question 21

Tarantism

Answer 21

A form of mass hysteria present during the Middle Ages, characterized by wild raving, jumping, dancing, and convulsing

Question 22

Humanism

Answer 22

A philosophical movement that emphasizes human welfare and the worth and uniqueness of an indv.

Question 23

Moral Treatment Movement

Answer 23

A crusade to institute more humane treatment of people with mental illness

Question 24

Syndromes

Answer 24

Certain symptoms that tend to occur regularly in clusters

Question 25

Psychological viewpoint

Answer 25

Belief that disorders are caused by psychological and emotional factors

Question 26

Intrapsychic Phenomenon

Answer 26

Psychological processing occurring in the mind