Chapter 4 Flashcards
Situational Problem is…
environmental
Pervasive Problem is…
long-term
What factors lead to a higher chance of recovery?
Intelligence, personality (acknowledge responsibility?), social context (environment helping?)
The only cultural factor worth noting is…
Does the client speak english?
What would be an example of the rare situation where culture causes abnormal psych?
Jews getting tay-sacks due to lack of genetic variation
Psychodynamically oriented psychologists focus on…
intrapsychic conflicts causing coindition (rorsach can unlock problems)
Behaviorally oriented psychologists focus on…
relationships between environmental events and cognitive behavior
Cognitively oriented psychologists focus on…
how clients think about heir lives in inaccurate ways.
Operant Conditioning
New responses reoccur if they are reinforced
Cognitive-behavioral perspective focuses on…
how thoughts and information processing become distorted
Reliability
Produces same results
Validity
Measures what it should
Standardizability
Is it applied consistently?
Physical assessment should include…
General physical examination, neurological examination with brain scans, neuropsychological examination
Psychological assessment should include…
Assessment interviews, clinical observation of behavior, psychological tests