Test 2

Question 1

Behaviorism

Answer 1

Behavioral treatments are just reverse engineering (how can we reverse the problem)

Question 2

Classical Conditioning

Answer 2

Unconditioned stimulus + netural stimulus
- Conditioning = learning
- Behavior that follows is involuntary

Question 3

Operant conditioning

Answer 3

The behavior is voluntary
- Rewards are introduced to increase behavior
- Punishment introduced to decrease behavior

Question 4

Julian Rotter (expectancy theory) Social Learning Theory

Answer 4

States a person’s behavior is based on their expectations that behavior in a certain way will lead to a certain outcome (EX: committing a crime will serve a problem)

Question 5

Individual Offender

Answer 5

Criminal behavior emerges after a long series of frustration

Question 6

Socialized Offender

Answer 6

Learn to offend through social interactions (modeling)

Question 7

Frustration-Aggression

Answer 7

When your behavior directed toward a goal is blocked, frustration increases and you seek to reduce it. You may employ aggression/violence to decrease the frustration or choose some other response

Question 8

Self-Serving Bias

Answer 8

How we explain our behavior depending on whether the outcome of our behavior is positive or negative. For example, an athlete is more likely to attribute a good performance on their own ability, and a poor one on external causes like the event environment

Question 9

Fundamental Attribution Error

Answer 9

The tendency people have to overemphasize personal characteristics and ignore situational factors in judging others’ behavior. Because of the fundamental attribution error, we tend to believe that others do bad things because they are bad people.

Question 10

Moral Disengagement

Answer 10

Explains why people do things they know are not right
- We morally disengage when we can justify our actions or dehumanize the victim

Question 11

Approximately ___ of U.S. adults have a mental illness (About _ in _)

Answer 11

1) 18%
2) 1 in 5

Question 12

Of this group approximately 1 out of 5 diagnosed with a mental disorder have some mental illness ( _% of U.S. population)

Answer 12

4%

Question 13

Servere Mental Illness

Answer 13

Class of disorders with psychotic features (schizophrenia, MDD, BPD) or other symptoms that have the potential to vary substantially, affect an individuals interpersonal and vocational functioning (detachment from reality)

Question 14

Mental Illness

Answer 14

Disorders of the mind that interfere substantially with a persons ability to cope with life on a daily basis