Chapter 1 Examples And Behaviors

Question 1

Psychopathology

Answer 1

The symptoms and signs of mental disorders

Question 2

Abnormal Psychology

Answer 2

The study of mental disorders using psychological science

Question 3

Psychosis

Answer 3

Mental disorder that describes someone that is out of touch with reality

Question 4

Syndrome

Answer 4

A group of correlated symptoms that usually appear together to represent a mental disorder

Question 5

Gender dysphoria

Answer 5

Beliefs that one is a member of the opposite sex trapped in the wrong body

Question 6

Approaches to Abnormal Behavior

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Flourishing

Answer 7

People who function at the highest levels

Question 8

Female orgasmic disorder

Answer 8

Absence of orgasmic accompanied by social difficulties

Question 9

Epidemiology

Answer 9

Frequency and distribution of a disorder within a population

Question 10

Incidence

Answer 10

Number of new cases over a specific period of time

Question 11

Prevalence

Answer 11

Total number of active cases over a specific period of time

Question 12

NCS-R

Answer 12

National Comorbidity Survey Replication
2001- 2003
Large scale study of mental disorder showing the lifetime prevalence of mental disorders at 46%

Question 13

Epidemiology studies show these mental disorders were common among women

Answer 13

Major depression
Anxiety disorders
Eating disorders

Question 14

Epidemiology studies show that these disorders are common among men

Answer 14

Alcoholism

Antisocial personality

Question 15

Epidemiology studies show this shows up equally between meN And women

Answer 15

Bipolar disorder

Question 16

Comorbidity

Answer 16

The presence of more than one condition at the same time

Question 17

How to measure disease burden?

Answer 17

Mortality - lost years of healthy life

Disability - severity

Question 18

Psychiatry

Answer 18

The study and treatment of mental disorders

Branch of medicine

Question 19

Clinical Psychology

Answer 19

Application of physical science to the assessment of mental disorders. Phd, Psyd

Question 20

Social Work

Answer 20

Helping people achieve an effective level of psychosocial functioning. Masters

Question 21

Dorothea Dix

Answer 21

Advocate of humanistic movement in hospitals

Question 22

Samuel Woodward

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Case study

Answer 23

An in-depth look at the symptoms surrounding one person’s mental disturbances

Question 24

Hypothesis

Answer 24

Any new prediction

Question 25

Experimental hypothesis

Answer 25

Any new idea that must be stated in correlation to all studies and experiments

Question 26

Null hypothesis

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Predicts the experimental hypothesis is not true

Question 27

Hippocrates

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Natural causes to mental disorders

a balance of black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm

Question 28

Disease Burden

Answer 28

measures the combination of mortality and disability

Question 29

Disorder

Answer 29

a group of symptoms that exist together

Question 30

Lifetime prevalence

Answer 30

number of people affected by a disorder within a population over a lifetime

Question 31

cross-cultural comparisons

Answer 31

how a disorder presents itself over different societies