Chapter 2

Question 1

Multi dimensional integrated approach

Answer 1

Approach to psychopathology thatholds disorders as the product of multiple factors

Question 2

Genes

Answer 2

DNA, basic unit of heredity

Question 3

Diatheses-stress model hypothesis

Answer 3

Guess that an inhereted tendency (vulnerability) and a stressir combine to make a disorder

Question 4

Vulnerability susceptibility

Answer 4

Tendency to develop a disorder

Question 5

Gene-environment cirrelation model hypothesis

Answer 5

Theiry that people with a genetid preposition for a disorder may make an environment that promotes the disorder

Question 6

Epigenetics

Answer 6

The study of factors ither than inherited DNA like learning or stress that alter phenotypic expression of genes

Question 7

Neuroscience

Answer 7

Study of the nervous system and its impacts on behavior, thought, and emotions

Question 8

Neuron

Answer 8

Single cell responsible for information transmission

Question 9

Action potentials

Answer 9

Short periods of electrical activity in a neuron that sends a signal

Question 10

Terminal button

Answer 10

The end of an axon where NT are stored before release

Question 11

Synaptic cleft

Answer 11

Space between neurons (synaptic gap)

Question 12

Neurotransmitters

Answer 12

Chemical that crosses the sunaptic cleft to carry signals from one neuron to another. Too much or little can contribute to mental illness

Question 13

Excitatory

Answer 13

Activating/causing excitation

Question 14

Inhibitory

Answer 14

Surpressing/causing inhibition

Question 15

Hormone

Answer 15

Chemical messenger produced by the endocrine glands

Question 16

Brain circuts

Answer 16

Neurotransmitter current/pth in the brain

Question 17

Inverse agonist

Answer 17

Chemical substance that produces opposite effects to a neurotransmitter

Question 18

Reuptake

Answer 18

When a neuron takes it’s NTs back after they cross the synaptic cleft

Question 19

Modeling

Answer 19

(Observational learning) watching others reactions to a stimulus and modeling that reaction

Question 20

Prepared learning

Answer 20

Ability to learn certain associations faster than others

Question 21

Implicit memory

Answer 21

Condition of memory in which a person can’t recall memories but still acts on them

Question 22

Fight or flight

Answer 22

Biological reaction to stressors that prepares bidy to respond to a threat

Question 23

Emotion

Answer 23

Pattern of action elicited by an external event and a feeling state and a physiological response

Question 24

Mood

Answer 24

Enduring emotion

Question 25

Affect

Answer 25

Conscious, subjective part of emotion that accompanies an action

Question 26

Circumplex model

Answer 26

Model describing emotions as points in a 2-dimensional space of valence and arousal

Question 27

Equifinality developmental psychopathology

Answer 27

Principle that a disorder may have multiple causes