Chapter 1 Examples And Behaviors Flashcards
Psychopathology
The symptoms and signs of mental disorders
Abnormal Psychology
The study of mental disorders using psychological science
Psychosis
Mental disorder that describes someone that is out of touch with reality
Syndrome
A group of correlated symptoms that usually appear together to represent a mental disorder
Gender dysphoria
Beliefs that one is a member of the opposite sex trapped in the wrong body
Approaches to Abnormal Behavior
1) Subjective - person feels distressed or discomfort
2) Statistical Norms - how common or rare it is
3) Harmful Dysfunction - disruptions of thought, feeling, communication, perception, and motivation
Flourishing
People who function at the highest levels
Female orgasmic disorder
Absence of orgasmic accompanied by social difficulties
Epidemiology
Frequency and distribution of a disorder within a population
Incidence
Number of new cases over a specific period of time
Prevalence
Total number of active cases over a specific period of time
NCS-R
National Comorbidity Survey Replication
2001- 2003
Large scale study of mental disorder showing the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders at 46%
Epidemiology studies show these mental disorders were common among women
Major depression
Anxiety disorders
Eating disorders
Epidemiology studies show that these disorders are common among men
Alcoholism
Antisocial personality
Epidemiology studies show this shows up equally between meN And women
Bipolar disorder
Comorbidity
The presence of more than one condition at the same time
How to measure disease burden?
Mortality - lost years of healthy life
Disability - severity
Psychiatry
The study and treatment of mental disorders
Branch of medicine
Clinical Psychology
Application of physical science to the assessment of mental disorders. Phd, Psyd
Social Work
Helping people achieve an effective level of psychosocial functioning. Masters
Dorothea Dix
Advocate of humanistic movement in hospitals
Samuel Woodward
Focused on violations of natural or conventional behavioral.
At least half of the patients could be traced to immoral , improper living conditions, and exposure to unnatural stresses
Case study
An in-depth look at the symptoms surrounding one person’s mental disturbances
Hypothesis
Any new prediction
Experimental hypothesis
Any new idea that must be stated in correlation to all studies and experiments
Null hypothesis
Predicts the experimental hypothesis is not true
Hippocrates
Natural causes to mental disorders
a balance of black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm
Disease Burden
measures the combination of mortality and disability
Disorder
a group of symptoms that exist together
Lifetime prevalence
number of people affected by a disorder within a population over a lifetime
cross-cultural comparisons
how a disorder presents itself over different societies
