Unit 1 Review Flashcards
What are the ABCs of Stigma?
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
What was Link & Phlean’s 2001 process model?
Label human differences, make dominant beliefs and undesirable characteristics- lable in us/them categories. Give disparate access, so they are systemically excluded
What is sanism
Oppression based on percieved mental illness
What are the 4 D’s of Abnormal behaviors?
- Distress (how much?)
- Dysfunction (How much necessary for abnormal)
- Deviation from normality (statistical difference)
- Duration (Longer is disorder, transient is not?
What are the 3 historical classes of models
Supernatural(Soul/God/Devil), biological(phlegm, imbalance produce illness) psychological (The mind)
What is general paresis?
People who have syphallis for a long time have weaker muscles- after treated with penicillin let go. General paresis of the insane in asylums
What is construct validity
Does the test measure what it claims to measure
What is nosology
Deal with classification of diseases
What is a syndrome
constillation of symptoms
Nomothetic vs Idiographic
Nomothetic- ask questions at group level
idiographic- ask what’s true at person-specific level
What are the LOTS of data?
Life data (academic, medical, court)
Observational (audio/video recording)
Test data (IQ test)
Self-report (interview/questionarre
What is prevalence vs incidence
Prevalence- how common (lifetime or annual)
Incidence: How many new cases in a period
What is external validity
Generalize to the real world
What is the problem with double blind trials
- Blinding may be impossible to achieve in reality
- Sample of people who participate are not representative of all people with disorder
How long does depression last if untreated
Most last 2-9 months, 10-20% last 2+ years
How common is depression
~17% of people have depression in their lifetime
What is the leading cause of disability worldwide?
Depression
What do you need to do to qualify for bipolar 1
One Manic episode
What do you need to do to qualify for Bipolar 2
One hypomanic and one depressive episode
What happens if you perscribe an SSRI to someone who has Bipolar 1 or 2?
Cause mania from depressive episode
What happens to blood plasma cortisol in deprssion, and what do medicines do to treat this?
Cortisol levels Rise
- Medicine fails to suppress cortisol or sustain suppression
