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Final Exam Flashcards

1
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Learning through the observation and imitation of others.

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Modeling

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Assume that abnormal behavior stems from repressed conflicts and urges that are fighting to become conscious.

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Psychoanalytic Theorists

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Fear of objects or specific situations or events.

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Specific Phobia

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Any event or stimulus, that when following a response, increases the probability that the response will occur again.

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Reinforcement

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The use of objects called tokens to reinforce behavior in which the tokens can be accumulated and exchanged for desired items or privileges.

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Token Economy

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The tendency to interpret situations as far more dangerous,harmful,or important than they actually are.

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Magnification

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7
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In which behavior is bizarre and childish and thinking,speech, and motor actions are very disordered.

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Disorganized Schizophrenia

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An order of thought that continually preoccupies or intrudes on a person’s mind.

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Obsession

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9
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  • dream interpretation
  • free association
  • resistance
  • transference
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Freud’s Theory

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Firm of directive insight therapy in which the therapist helps clients to accept all parts of their feelings and subjective experiences,using leading questions and planned experiences such as role-playing.

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Gestalt Therapy

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The ability of the therapist to understand the feelings of the client.

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Empathy

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12
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Manifest content: the actual content of one’s dreams.

Latent content: the symbolic or hidden meaning of dreams.

Freud’s theory

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Dream Interpretation

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Technique for treating phobias and other stress disorders in which the person is rapidly and intensely exposed to the fear-provoking situation or object and prevented from making the usual avoidance or escape response.

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Flooding

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Traveling away from familiar surroundings with amnesia for personal information.

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Dissociative Fugue

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The need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place.

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Cultural Relativity

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16
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Anxiety that is unrelated to any realistic, known source.

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Free-floating Anxiety

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17
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Who developed the psychoanalytic model of abnormal behavior.

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Sigmund Freud

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Distortion of thinking in which a person focuses on one aspect of a situation while ignoring all other relevant aspects.

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Selective Thinking

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An irrational,persistent fear of an object, situation, or social activity.

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Phobia

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Behavior technique used to treat phobias, in which a client is asked to make a list of ordered fears and taught to relax while concentrating those fears.

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Systematic Desensitization

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21
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Occurring when a patient becomes reluctant totally about a certain topic, either changing the subject or becoming silent.

Freud’s Theory

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Resistance

22
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The open and honest response of the therapist to the client.

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Authenticity

23
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Psychotherapy in which the main goal is to change disordered or inappropriate behavior directly.

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Action Therapy

24
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Action therapy in which the goal to help clients overcome problems by learning to think more rationally and logically which in turn will impact their behavior.

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Cognitive-Behavior Therapy

25
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Therapy technique in which the therapist restates what the client says rather than interpreting those statements.

Roger’s four elements

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Reflection

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Refers to the warmth, respect, and accepting atmosphere created by the therapist for the client in person-centered therapy.

Roger’s four elements

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Unconditional Positive Regard

27
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Any pattern of behavior that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in daily life.

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Psychological Disorders

28
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See abnormal behavior as coming from irrational beliefs and illogical patterns of thought.

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Cognitive Theorists

29
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From of behavior therapy in which an undesirable behavior is parred with an aversive stimulus to reduce the frequency of the behavior.

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Aversion Therapy

30
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Become famous for demanding that the mentally ill be treated with kindness, personally unlocking the chains of inmates in France.

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Philippe Pinel

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Psychotherapies in which the main goal is helping people to gain insight with respect to their behavior, thoughts, and feelings.

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Insight Therapies

32
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Repetitive rule-bound behaviors that the individual feels must be performed in order to ward off distressing situations.

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Compulsion

33
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A mood disorder that causes emotional highs and lows.

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Cyclothymia

34
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In ancient times holes were cut in an ill person’s head to let out evil spirits in a process called?

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Trepanning

35
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In which a person has no morals or conscience and often behaves in an impulsive manner without regard for the consequences of that behavior.

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

36
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In psychoanalysis, the tendency for a patient or client to project positive or negative feelings for important people from the past onto the therapist.

Freud’s Theory

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Transference

37
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Believed that mental illness came from an imbalance in the body’s four humors or fluids (phlegm, black bike, blood, and yellow bile).

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Hippocrates

38
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Technique in which a patient was encouraged to talk about anything that came to mind without fear of negative evaluations.

Freud’s Theory

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Free Association

39
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See abnormal behavior as learned.

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Behaviorists

40
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Disorder in which intruding, recurring thoughts or obsessions create anxiety that is relived by performing a repetitive, ritualistic behavior.

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Obsessive-compulsive Disorder

41
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Sudden onset of intense panic in which multiple physical symptoms of stress occur, often with feelings that one is dying.

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Panic Attack

42
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Anything that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life.

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Maladaptive

43
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DSM-5

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Diagnostic and statistical manual, fifth edition is a manual of psychological disorders and their symptoms.

44
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  • reflection
  • unconditional positive regard
  • empathy
  • authenticity
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Roger’s four elements

45
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The study of abnormal behavior

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Psychopathology

46
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Include the use of drugs,surgical methods, and noninvasive stimulation techniques.

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Biomedical Therapy

47
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A formal, written agreement between the therapist and client in which goals for behavior change, reinforcements, and penalties are clearly stated.

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Contingency Contract

48
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Possible definition of abnormal behavior?

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  • statistically rare
  • deviant form social norms
  • causes subjective discomfort
  • dose not allow day-to-day functioning
  • causes a person to be dangerous to self or others
49
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Disorder in which a person has feelings of dread and impending doom, along with physical symptoms of stress, which lasts six months or more.

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder

50
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The tendency to believe that one’s performance must be perfect or the result will be a total failure.

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All-or-nothing Thinking

51
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Sever disorder in the the person suffers from disordered thinking, bizarre behavior, hallucinations, and is unable to distinguish between fantasy and reality.

Flat affect: in which the person shows little or no emotion.

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Schizophrenia

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