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Midterm #2 Flashcards

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neurodevelopmental disorders

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autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

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schizophrenia & other psychotic disorders

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schizophrenia

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bipolar & related disorders

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mania symptoms

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major depressive disorder (MDD)

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hypomania

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bipolar I

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bipolar II

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cyclothymic disorder

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anxiety disorders

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agoraphobia

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obsessive-compulsive & related disorders

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hoarding

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trauma & stressor-related disorders

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PTSD

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dissociative disorders

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dissociative identity disorder (DID)

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somatic symptoms & related disorders

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factitious disorder

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feeding and eating disorders

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bulimia nervosa

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binge eating disorder (BED)

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disruptive, impulse-control, & conduct disorders

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  • onset: childhood
  • more boys diagnosed than girls
  • destructive, aggressive behaviours against animals, people, objects (not something done once in a while)
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personality disorders

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cluster A personality disorders

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cluster B personality disorders

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cluster C personality disorders

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borderline personality disorder (BPD)

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social psychology

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how the presence of others, real or imaginary, if going to influence how we think and behave

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attributions

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the explanations we offer as to why a behaviour took place

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dispositional

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behaviour took place because this is who the person is

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situational

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behaviour took place because of factors external to the person

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fundamental attribution error

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actor-observer bias

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self-serving bias

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false consensus bias

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3 steps of self-fulfilling prophecies

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  1. must believe something
  2. must behave in line with the belief
  3. because behaved in line with the belief, expectation became reality
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What are the 3 major perspectives of the biological perspective?

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  • behavioural genetics
  • neurological
  • evolutionary
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What are the main goals of the neurological perspective?

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How physiological factors such as hormones and brain activity determine personality characteristic expression.

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what are the main goals of the evolutionary perspective?

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Behaviours/traits that are helpful with survival are likely to be passed on via evolutionary processes.

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what are the main goals of the behavioural genetics perspective?

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Personality is based on how inherited biological factors interact with the environment.

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What two traits might have been passed on, according to the evolutionary perspective?

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  • conscientiousness
  • optimism
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type A personality

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  • highly driven
  • competitive
  • aggressive
  • more likely to have a heart attack and suffer from substance abuse
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type B personality

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  • relaxed
  • calm
  • easy going
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concordance rate

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It is used to determine the similarity of a personality measure between a set of twins, uses the correlation coefficient.

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  • have higher amygdala levels
  • lower levels of serotonin
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neurotics

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  • smaller frontal levels
  • lower serotonin levels
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psychopaths

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ARAS?

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ascending reticular activating system
- regulates brain arousal

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factor analysis

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statistical technique that groups together items based on patterns and similarities

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Allport

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father of personality psychology

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Eysenck

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used factor analysis to come up with 3 main personality factors

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Costa and McRae

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developed the big 5 model

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3 dimensions of personality (according to Eysenck)

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extraversion - introversion
neuroticism - emotional stability
psychoticism - impulse control

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5 factors of personality (according to Costa and McRae)

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openness
conscientiousness
extraversion
agreeableness
neuroticism
(OCEAN)

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10 clinical scales in the MMPI

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hypochondriasis
depression
hysteria
psychopathic deviate
masculinity - femininity
paranoia
psychasthenia
schizophrenia
hypomania
social introversion

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association techniques

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Type of projective test that provides participant with ambiguous picture and analyzes their first response, e.g. Rorschach ink blot test

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fundamental attribution error

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The tendency to attribute the behavior of others to internal/dispositional causes rather than external/environmental causes.

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Clinical scale in MMPI that measures bizarre thoughts and behaviors, difficulty with communication and reality-testing

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schizophrenia

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stereotypes

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attitudes and opinions about people based on the group they are affiliated with, and assume that all members of said group share identical traits (e.g., soccer players fake injuries).

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defining characteristic of bipolar disorder

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cycling between extreme moods of mania to depression

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abnormal psychology

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The scientific study of mental illness/psychological disorders and factors associated with them (treatment, causes, prevention, etc.)

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dispositional/internal attributions

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The behavior occurred as a result of personality, emotions, intentions and beliefs;

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situational/external attributions

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The behavior occurred because of external factors outside the person, such as grumpy after a hot day

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the 3 psychophysiological measures

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  • electrophysiological
  • biochemical
  • cortical
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bystander effect

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we are more likely to help someone in need when there is little to no one else around

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Janis

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proposed groupthink

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Milgram’s experiment

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  • the experiment with the shocking and increase in voltage and all that
  • 65% of participants continued to shock to the highest voltage
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positive symptoms

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symptoms that are not normally present

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factors that are positively correlated with happiness

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  • agreeableness
  • extraversion
  • conscientiousness
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projective tests are associated with what perspective?

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psychoanalytical perspective

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