Unit 1 Review

Question 1

What are the ABCs of Stigma?

Answer 1

Affective- Prejudice- people feel disgust toward people engaging in disorder
Behavioral- Discrimination- people don’t show up to wedding b/c of illness
Cognitive- Stereotyping

Question 2

What was Link & Phlean’s 2001 process model?

Answer 2

Label human differences, make dominant beliefs and undesirable characteristics- lable in us/them categories. Give disparate access, so they are systemically excluded

Question 3

What is sanism

Answer 3

Oppression based on percieved mental illness

Question 4

What are the 4 D’s of Abnormal behaviors?

Answer 4

1. Distress (how much?)
2. Dysfunction (How much necessary for abnormal)
3. Deviation from normality (statistical difference)
4. Duration (Longer is disorder, transient is not?

Question 5

What are the 3 historical classes of models

Answer 5

Supernatural(Soul/God/Devil), biological(phlegm, imbalance produce illness) psychological (The mind)

Question 6

What is general paresis?

Answer 6

People who have syphallis for a long time have weaker muscles- after treated with penicillin let go. General paresis of the insane in asylums

Question 7

What is construct validity

Answer 7

Does the test measure what it claims to measure

Question 8

What is nosology

Answer 8

Deal with classification of diseases

Question 9

What is a syndrome

Answer 9

constillation of symptoms

Question 10

Nomothetic vs Idiographic

Answer 10

Nomothetic- ask questions at group level
idiographic- ask what’s true at person-specific level

Question 11

What are the LOTS of data?

Answer 11

Life data (academic, medical, court)
Observational (audio/video recording)
Test data (IQ test)
Self-report (interview/questionarre

Question 12

What is prevalence vs incidence

Answer 12

Prevalence- how common (lifetime or annual)
Incidence: How many new cases in a period

Question 13

What is external validity

Answer 13

Generalize to the real world

Question 14

What is the problem with double blind trials

Answer 14

• Blinding may be impossible to achieve in reality
• Sample of people who participate are not representative of all people with disorder

Question 15

How long does depression last if untreated

Answer 15

Most last 2-9 months, 10-20% last 2+ years

Question 16

How common is depression

Answer 16

~17% of people have depression in their lifetime

Question 17

What is the leading cause of disability worldwide?

Answer 17

Depression

Question 18

What do you need to do to qualify for bipolar 1

Answer 18

One Manic episode

Question 19

What do you need to do to qualify for Bipolar 2

Answer 19

One hypomanic and one depressive episode

Question 20

What happens if you perscribe an SSRI to someone who has Bipolar 1 or 2?

Answer 20

Cause mania from depressive episode

Question 21

What happens to blood plasma cortisol in deprssion, and what do medicines do to treat this?

Answer 21

Cortisol levels Rise
- Medicine fails to suppress cortisol or sustain suppression