Semester Final Flashcards
The sociocultural perspective looks at…
race, culture, and ethnicity
Freud reffered to the dynamic of a patient developing either positive or negative feelings towards their therapist as…
transference
Psychotherapy techniques include…
Play therapy, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, and humanistic therapy
in medieval times, explanations for those who were mentally ill were thought to be all of the following EXCEPT
an inspired god
The diathesis-stress model presumes that psychopathology results from
vunerability and adverse experiences
Another term for the percentage of people in the us who currently have a diagnosis of depression is
Prevalence
Which of the following is NOT included in DSM-5
Cause of disorders
A study based on over 9,000 US residents found that the most prevalent disorder was
Major depressive disorder
patterns of inner experience and behavior are thought to reflect the presence of a psychological disorder if they
lead to significant distress and impairment in ones life
how does positive affect differ from optimism
Positive affect involves feeling states; optimism involves expectations
relative to those with low levels of social support, individuals with high levels of social support
tend to tolerate stress well
the most lethal dimension of Type A behavior pattern seems to be
hostility
which of the following is NOT a dimension of job burnout
Hostility
what is one major criticisms of the Social Readjustment Rating Scale
it does not take into consideration how a person appraises an event
According to the holmes and rahe scale, which life event requires the greatest amount of readjustment?
death of spouse
At which stage of Selyes general adaptation syndrome is a person especially vunerable to illness
exhaustion