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A person who suffered from the form of mass madness called lycanthropy beloved themselves to be possessed by what?

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Wolves

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What is a trephine?

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A stone instrument used to cut away a circular section of the skull

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All forms of therapy have 3 essential features what are they?

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A sufferer, a healer and a series of contacts between the sufferer and healer

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Behavior that is psychologically abnormal is not called what?

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Mental instability

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Judgments of abnormality depend on social norms as well as what?

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Specific circumstances

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Who was the Boston school teacher who made humane care a public and political concern in 19th century America

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Dorothea Dix

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Insurance parity laws are concerned with what?

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Providing equal coverage for mental and medical problems

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The policy of releasing patients from public mental health hospitals is known as what?

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Deinstitutionalization

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What is the role of a clinical practitioner in abnormal psychology?

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To detect, assess and treat abnormal patterns of functioning

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Before the 1950s almost all outpatient care for psychological disturbances took the form of what?

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Private psychotherapy

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The treatment mechanism associated with touching a troubled area of a patients body either a special rod is known as what?

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Mesmerism

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What was the earliest term to describe the mentally ill?

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Unstable

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What did Dorothea Dix work lead to the establishment around the country?

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State hospitals

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Which single viewpoint dominates clinical field as much as the psychoanalytic perspective ounce did?

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The Cognitive model

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What 19th century perspective held the view that abnormal psychological functioning had physical causes?

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Somatogenic>body

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What did Hippocrates believe caused abnormal behavior?

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Imbalances In bodily fluids

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Who argued societies invent the concept of mental Illness so they can control people whose unusual patterns of function upset or threaten the social order?

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Thomas Sazazs

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What is the role of clinical practitioners?

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Gathering systematic information so they can describe, predict and explain the phenomenon of their study

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Which viewpoint dominates the clinical field as the psychoanalytical perspective did?

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Cognitive

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The most prominent forerunner to the modern community mental health program was at gheel where is gheel located?

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Belgium

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What is one of the traits eccentric people exibit?

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They have fewer emotional problems then the general population

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Who was the French physician associated with asylum reform at La bicetre?

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Philippe pineal

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What is the dominate form of insurance coverage for mental hearth patients?

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Managed care

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When was the federal parity law requiring insurance companies to provide equal coverage for medical and mental problems enacted?

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2011

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What is the area of psychology concerned with the study and enhancement of positive feelings, traits and abilities?

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Positive psychology

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What perspective view views the chief causes of abnormal functioning as psychological?

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Psychogenic

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What percentage of current psychology graduate students are female?

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72%

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What was the dance in the Middle Ages people used to rid themselves of resulting symptoms of a wolf spider bite called?

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Tarantella

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What is the main difference between a psychiatrist and a psychologist

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Psychiatrists are trained medical doctors who can provide therapy, a psychologist is not a medical doctor but they can provide therapy

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Clinical practitioners seek what type of understanding of abnormal behavior?

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Idiographic understanding

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Clinical researchers look for what type of truths about the causes and treatments if abnormality?

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Nomothetic

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If a research study concludes that the less coffee you drink the less aniexty you experience, the researchers most likely used what type of method?

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The correlational method

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If a research study concludes that the more activities you participate in , the less likely you are to be depressed the conclusion would be expressed as what?

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A negative correlation

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If there is less then a 5% probability that a study’s findings are due to chance, the findings are said to be what?

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Statistically significant

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Studies that reveal the incidence and prevalence of s disorder in a particular population are known as what?

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Epidemiological studies

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What is the name of the effect that describes a researcher unintentionally transmitting his or her expectations about the outcome of the research to a research subject?

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The Rosenthal effect

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What is the rule of correlations?

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The closer to - + 1.0 the stronger the correlational relationship is.

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When the findings of research can be generalized to people beyond the immediate study, the investigation is said to have what?

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External validity

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Researchers investigating a rare disorder that affects only a few subjects would most likely use what type of research design?

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Single subject experimental

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What type of study involves both the experimenter and the participant from knowing who the control is?

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Double blind

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What is the biggest limitation of correlational research?

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It does not allow conclusions about cause and effect relationships

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If you want to compare a subject with him/herself under different conditions rather than comparing him/her to control subjects what design might you want to use?

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Abab

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If a research subject is given drugs designed to intensify her symptoms, she is participating in what type of study?

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Symptom exacerbation.

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For the first half of the twentieth century the cause of schizophrenia was thought to be caused by what?

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In appropriate parenting.

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When researchers wish to observe the same subjects on many occasions over a long period of time they use what type of study?

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Longitudinal study

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What symbol is the correlational coefficient?

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R

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Researchers would most likely use what type of research design in order to compare children who have a history of child abuse with those who don’t?

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Epidemiological

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What variable is manipulated in an experiment I order to determine if it has an effect on another variable?

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The independent variable

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An imitation treatment that looks or tastes like the real therapy but has one of the key ingredients is referred to as what?

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A placebo

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50
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The genain sisters all developed what in their early twenties ?

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Schizophrenia

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51
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Correlational studies of many pairs of twins have suggested a link between what factors and certain psychological disorders?

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Genetic

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52
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What are most informed consent forms for clinical research written at?

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A high school level

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Patients are given an experimental drug to see if it reduces their symptoms, this is what type of study?

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A new drug study

54
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What type of study design has subjects unaware of as to whether they are assigned to an experimental group or control group?

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A blind design

55
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Which facet of of experimental research is missing in a quasi-experimental design?

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A random assignment

56
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What type of medication study may be used to determine how and when patients can be taken off particular medications?

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A Withdrawal study.

57
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What is the percentage of respondents that said they can accept animal research as long as it’s conducted fir medical purpose ?

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75%

58
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What would a perfect correlational relationship between variables be expressed as?

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1.00

59
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Who developed gestalt therapy?

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Frederick fritz peris

60
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According to Carl Rogers a who did not receive unconditional positive regard in early life is likely to develope what disorder?

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Conditions of worth

61
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Cognitive therapists guide clients to challenge their own dysfunction what?

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Thoughts

62
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Before the 1950s who only offered psychotherapy ?

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Psychiatrist

63
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What German physician was the first to specialize in mental illness and now is considered the founder of the modern study of psychopathology?

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Johann Weyer

64
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What is the job of a clinical scientist ?

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To gather information systematically to describe, predict, and explain the phenomenon they study

65
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When an unusual problem does not occur often enough to permit a large number of observations what might be the best way to study it?

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Case study

66
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In science the perspectives used to explain phenomena are referred to as what?

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Paradigms

67
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What type of theorists believe that people are mainly motivated by a need to have a relationship with others and that severe problems in relationships between children’s and their caregivers may lead to abnormal development?

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Object relation theorists

68
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What Paradigm of abnormal psychology is the role of the therapist thought to be they of the teacher?

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The behavioral model

69
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What is the oldest and most famous of the modern psychological models?

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Psychodynamic model

70
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According to Freud the I’d operates with what principle?

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The pleasure principle

71
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What is the main difference between group therapy and a self help group?

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Group therapy has a trained therapist

72
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What is the basic premise of family therapy?

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The whole is seen as the unit of treatment

73
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Which contemporary psychodynamic approach holds that therapists are key figures in the lives of patient whose reactions and beliefs should be included in therapy?

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Relational psycho analytic therapy

74
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Albert Bandura argued they in order to feel happy and function effectively , people must develop a sense of what?

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Self efficacy

75
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What type of prevention seeks to provide effective treatment as soon as it’s needed so that moderate or severe disorders do not become long term problems ?

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Secondary prevention

76
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What part of the brain helps to regulate emotions and memory?

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The Hippocampus

77
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What is not a current major model of mental abnormality?

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Evolutionary

78
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What concern does cyber therapy not raise?

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Confidentiality

79
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According to Freud what is the psychological force that represents a persons conscious?

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Super ego

80
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What is systematic desensitization?

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A behavioral treatment where a patient is exposed to a contributor of their phobia and gradually learn to react calmly

81
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What therapy suggests people have to own up to their being and give meaning to their live?

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Existential therapy

82
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When was psychotropic medicine developed?

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1950

83
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When a 3 year old boy fell into a gorilla exhibit in 1996 what stumped clinical theorists?

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A 160 pound gorilla protected the boy carried him and delivered him to rescue workers

84
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What psychological model suggests human beings are driven to self-actualize or fulfill their natural potential for goodness and growth?

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The humanistic model

85
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Some research has suggested ————-has been linked to exposure to certain viruses during childhood or before birth?

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Schizophrenia

86
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What type of assessment would be used to assess unconscious drives and conflicts may be at the root of abnormal functioning?

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Projective

87
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A diagnostic tool that helps clinicians predict future symptoms or events has what type of validity?

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Predictive

88
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A mental status exam is a component of what ?

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Structured interview

89
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A persons Iq is initially represented the ratio of what ?

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A persons mental age divided chronological age

90
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What type of assessment asks people to respond to pictures by telling a story?

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A thematic appreciation test

91
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How many disorders does the DSM-5 list?

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400

92
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What is true about about the term nervous breakdown?

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It is not a clinical term, it’s used by patients

93
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What would a personality disorder first be recorded as in the DSM-5

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A diagnosis

94
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The —– movement has tried to identify a set of common strategies that are present in the work of all effective therapists regardless of the clinicians particular orientation ?

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Rapprochement

95
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What type of scan produces a computerized motion picture of chemical activity throughout the brain?

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A pet scan

96
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The polygraph is a form of what test?

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Psychophysiiological

97
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What are the three important criteria of assessments ?

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Standardization, reliability, validity

98
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What type of scan is a brain imaging technique that uses certain properties of hydrogen atoms to create a detailed picture of the brains structure and activity?

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A Mri scan

99
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A clinician who is observing parent child interactions in a home is conducting what type of observation?

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A naturalistic observation

100
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The details and background of a clients problem is called what?

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Idiographic data

101
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What is established information About the nature and treatment of a particular illness called ?

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Nomothetic data

102
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What is the collecting of relevant information in an effort to reach a conclusion referred to?

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An assessment

103
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An assessment tool shows high —— reliability of different judges independently agree on how to score and interpret it?

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Interatter

104
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Penis retreat and withdrawal is referred to as what?

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Koro

105
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What illness once common to Algonquin Indian hunters was marked by cannibalism?

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Windingo

106
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When was the DSM-5 workforce formed in?

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2006

107
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What widely used neuropsychological test consists of 9 cards each displaying a simple design that subjects are asked to first copy on a peice of paper and then redraw from memory?

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Bender visual motor gestalt test

108
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Out of 100 true statements how many are incorrectly identified as false on a polygraph test?

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8

109
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A cluster of symptoms that occur together are known as what?

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A syndrome

110
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How many clinical scales are found on the mmpi / MMPI-2

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10 scales

111
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According to the meta analysis of treatment studies the average persons who received treatment was better off than how much percent than the untreated control group?

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75%

112
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If an assessment tool Yields the same results every time it is given to the same people it has what?

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Text retest reliability

113
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What people are most likely to have been in therapy at some point in their lives?

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Highly educated Middle Aged women from western states

114
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Intelligence tests can play a key role in the diagnosis of what?

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Intellectual developmental disorder

115
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What is the single most effective therapy for schizophrenia?

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Drug therapy

116
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Before being appointed to the Dsm 5 task force and work group clinical researchers were required to pledge their total annual income from pharmaceutical companies to how much?

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10000

117
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What percentage of people in the United States will qualify for a Dsm diagnosis at some point in their lives?

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50%

118
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What is a psychiatrist who primarily prescribes medication called?

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A psychopharmacologist

119
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How many different forms of therapy are practiced in the clinical field?

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400

120
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What type of test has been set up with common steps to be followed whenever it’s administered ?

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A standardized text

121
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What type of test requires a subject to look at one inkblot card at a time and tell what they see in the image?

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Rorschach test

122
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What type of experiment is mist likely to us animals as subjects to learn more about humdinger beings

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Analogue

123
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What type of truth do clinical researchers look for in understanding abnormality?

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Nomothetic

124
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Consent forms are written at what educational level ?

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College

125
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What theorists believe that people are motivated by a need to have relationShips with others and that severe problems in the relationships between children and their caregivers may bet lead to abnormal development?

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Object relations

126
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What paradigm of abnormal psychology is the role of the therapist thought yo be that of the Teacher

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Behavioral model

127
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What is the most reported psychological difficulty expressed by the Native American population?

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Extreme sadness

128
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Huntintons disease has been traced to a loss in which part of the brain?

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The Basil ganglia

129
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Who established gestalt therapy?

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Frederick peris

130
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According to comers textbook what is not described as being part of the cerebrum ?

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Hypothalamus

131
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The validity of clinical observation may be limited by a clients what?

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Reactivity of being observed

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