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Mental Illness Flashcards

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1
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What is psychopathology caused by?

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Organic defect

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2
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How does the biological model see mental illnesses?

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Disease

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3
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What are individual differences in behaviour attributable to?

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Differences in genetic makeup

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4
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What are inherited genes?

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Genotype

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What are observable characteristics?

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Phenotype

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What length of alleles does it mean you’re more likely to suffer from severe from depression from maltreatment?

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Two short alleles

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When was the first artificial human chromosome created?

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1997

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Who developed the psychoanalysis model?

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Freud

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What are the psychosexual stages of Freud’s psychodynamic model?

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital

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What are the psychosexual stages of Freud’s psychodynamic model?

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Oral, anal, phallic, latency and genital

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What are does the behavioural model assume about abnormal behaviour?

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It is learnt the same way other behaviour is learnt

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12
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What is classical conditioning?

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The process of learning by temporal association

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13
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What is operant conditioning?

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Process of learning through reinforcement

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What is modeling?

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Process of acquiring repossessing through observation and imitation

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What does cognition emphasise?

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Process of perceiving, recognising, judging and reasoning

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16
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What are conditions of worth?

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Standards by which people judge themselves, the stands win which they just conform to be acceptable

17
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What are conditions of worth?

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Standards by which people judge themselves, the stands win which they just conform to be acceptable

18
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What is dysfunctioning?

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Causes by self-deception hiding from ones life responsibilities and choices

19
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What does the humanistic-existential view on patients potential?

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Patients as people whose special potential that has yet to be fulfilled and whose behaviour can be influenced by their innate goodness

20
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What rate is psychological abnormality more common in the lower socioeconomic classes then in the higher?

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3x

21
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How many more women are diagnosed with anxiety and depression compared to that of men?

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2x

22
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How many more women are diagnosed with anxiety and depression compared to that of men?

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2x

23
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What is the fundamental attribution error?

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The tendency of people, when explaining the behaviour of others, generally underestimate the influence of situations and overestimate the influence of personality traits

24
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What is the DSM-V?

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Uniform manual of diagnosis, a widely accepted system for classifying psychology problems and disorders

25
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What is the DSM-V?

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Uniform manual of diagnosis, a widely accepted system for classifying psychology problems and disorders

26
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Whats comorbidity?

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A person meets the criteria for more than one disorder at a time

27
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Which key development in the 1950s helped strengthen the biological model?

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The development of effective psychotropic drugs

28
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What is the name given to the bias whereby people judge the probability of an event by the ease at which an example comes to mind?

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The availability heuristic

29
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According to Freud, the ego operates according to

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The Reality Principle

30
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What are reciprocal gene-environemnt interactions?

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Genes may predispose people to create certain environments (e.g. break ups)

31
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What do low levels of serotonin cause?

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Eatings disorders, depression, alcoholism

32
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What do low levels of serotonin cause?

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Eatings disorders, depression, alcoholism

33
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What is the libido?

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Sensual energy, that fuels: ID ego & superego

34
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What does the ID operate in accordance with?

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Pleasure Principles and uses primary process thinking

35
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What does the ego operate in accordance with?

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Reality principle and uses secondary process thinking

36
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What does the ego develop to control unacceptable ID impulses to avoid or reduce anxiety

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Defence mechanisms

37
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What has the psychodynamic model helped us understand?

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That abnormal functioning may be rooter in the same processes that underlie normal functioning

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