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The study of abnormal psychology is the study of people who experience Mental pain, Emotional pain, and Physical pain
What is Abnormal Psychology?
Abnormal behavior results from divine intervention, curses, demonic possession, or personal sin.
What are Supernatural Perspectives?
Slight gap between the synaptic terminal of one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron
What is the Synapse?
Human behavior is driven by this.
What is libido or aggression?
a label for a set of symptoms that often occur together
What is Diagnosis?
Can harm or scare self or others
What is Dangerousness?
the place where they believed abnormal behavior caused by imbalance of positive (yang) and negative (yin) forces in body
What is ancient china?
Molecules on the membrane of an adjacent neuro
What are receptors?
Source of libido and aggressive drives
What is the ID?
Accuracy of a test/method in assessing what it is supposed to measure
What is validity?
Causes emotional or physical pain
What is Distress?
The Place where they believed Diseases result from imbalances in the body’s essential humors
What is Ancient Egypt, Greece, or Rome?
Occurs when the neuron that initially released the neurotransmitter into the synapse reabsorbs the neurotransmitter
What is Reputake?
Seeks Gratification of id impulses
What is the Ego?
Has 21 items, each of which describes four levels of a given symptom of depression
What is the Beck Depression Inventory?
Outside cultural norms
What is Deviance?
Abnormal behavior is similar to physical disease and is caused by the breakdown of systems in the body.
What are biological Theories?
Travels through many key areas of the brain, affecting the function of those areas
What is serotonin?
Completely out of our awareness
What is the Unconscious?
Clinician looks for specific behaviors and what precedes and follows these behaviors
What is Behavioral observation?
Interferes with a person’s ability to function in daily life
What is Dysfunction?
Abnormal behavior results from trauma or chronic stress.
What are Psychological Theories?
Found in areas of the brain associated with the experience of reinforcements or rewards
What is dopamine?
Moral compass that includes the rules and regulations of behavior learned from parents and society
What is the Superego?
Detect specific cognitive deficits, such as difficulty with visual memory
What are Neuropsychological Test?