Midterm Flashcards
George was tormented by the deprecating voices he kept hearing. This is an example of which of the four D’s?
Distress
This is the examination of the impact of culture, race, gender, and similar factors on our behaviors and focuses on how such factors may influence abnormal behavior.
Multicultural Psychology
These medications reduce tension and worry
Antianxiety drugs
This study measures the incidence and prevalence of a disorder in a given population
Epidemiological study
These medications lift the mood of depressed people
Antidepressants
Before the 1950s, psychotherapy was offered only by
Psychiatrists
This is the study and enhancement of positive feelings, traits, and abilities.
Positive Psychology
While there are numerous definitions of abnormality, most definitions share the following features: deviance, distress, danger, and:
Dysfunction
This practice begun in the 1960s to release hundreds of thousands of patients from public mental hospitals.
Deinstitutionalization
John’s family had a difficult time understanding why he chose to wear an overcoat, a hat, and gloves during the summer. This is an example of which of the four D’s?
Deviance
These medications correct extremely confused and distorted thinking.
Antipsychotics
If you decide to stand on your desk when your professor is lecturing, your conduct would be outside the stated:
Norms
Maria obsesses for hours over her hair and make-up in the morning. She has been fired from two jobs in the past four months as she cannot get to work on time. This is an example of which of the four D’s?
Dysfunction
Rico’s family chose to celebrate Christmas Eve by cooking a variety of foods only prepared once a year in celebration of the Christmas holiday. This is an example of one’s:
Culture
This model sees physical processes as a key to human behavior:
Biological model
Dr. Jacobs supports this model which believes a full understanding of his patients’ thoughts, emotions, and behavior mmust also include an understanding of their biological basis.
Biological model
The Biological Model is best rooted in
Medicine
Serotonin, Dopamine, and Norepinephrine are examples of
neurotransmitters
The three main biological treatments include all of the following except
Psychotherapy
This model looks at people’s unconscious internal processes and conflicts
Psychodynamic model
This model emphasizes behavior and the ways in which it is learned.
Behavioral model
This model concentrates on the responses an organism makes to it’s environment
Behavioral
This is the process of learning in which behavior that leads to satisfying consequences is likely to be repeated.
Operant conditioning
This is the process of learning in which an individual acquires responses by observing and imitating others.
Modeling
______ experience unusually high rates of anxiety disorders.
African Americans
This approach seeks to address the unique issues faced by members of minority groups.
Culture-sensitive therapies
This approach seeks to address the pressures of being a woman in Western society.
gender-sensitive therapies
The categories of clinical assessment techniques and tools include all of the following EXCEPT:
Surveys
Dr. Lucas is a ___________ who tries to discover assumptions and interpretations that influence the person.
cognitive interviewer
These inventories measure the severity of such emotions as anxiety, depression and anger.
affective
These inventories are used particularly by behavioral and family-social clinicians and ask respondents how they would react in a variety of situations.
social skills
___________ is the central nervous system’s physiological and emotional response to a serious threat to one’s well-being.
fear
___________ is the central nervous system’s physiological and emotional response to a vague sense of threat or danger.
anxiety
According to Freud, children experience ___________ anxiety when they face actual danger and ___________ anxiety when they are repeatedly prevented, by parents or circumstances, from expressing their id impulses.
realistic; neurotic
According to Freud, children experience ___________ anxiety when they are repeatedly prevented, by parents or circumstances, from expressing their id impulses, and ___________ anxiety when they are punished or threatened for expressing their id impulses.
neurotic; moral
The humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers, in which clinicians try to help clients by being accepting, empathizing accurately, and conveying genuineness, is referred to as:
client-centered.
Phobia comes from the Greek word for:
fear
This is a persistent and unreasonable fear of a particular object, activity, or situation.
phobia
This is the fear of being in public places or situations where escape might be difficult or help unavailable if panic-like symptoms were to occur.
agoraphobia
Kevin suffers from ___________ and is afraid to leave the house and travel to public places or other locations where escape might be difficult for him.
agoraphobia
Behaviorists propose ___________ as a common way of acquiring phobic reactions.
classical conditioning
Jill has been experiencing recurring periods of shortness of breath, sweating, trembling, faintness, and a feeling of unreality for over a month. She may be suffering from:
panic disorder
Panic disorder may be accompanied by:
agoraphobia
The most common theme that runs through the thoughts of people troubled by obsessive thinking appears to be:
dirt or contamination
Sigmund Freud traced obsessive-compulsive disorder to the ___________ stage of development.
anal
Exposure and response prevention is a ___________ treatment for obsessive-compulsive disorder.
behavioral
More and more individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder are now being treated by a combination of behavioral, cognitive, and ___________ therapy.
drug
In the DSM-5, each of the following has been assigned as an obsessive-compulsive-related disorder EXCEPT:
impulse-control disorder
Repeatedly checking one’s appearance in a mirror is indicative of:
body dysmorphic disorder.
