Ch.1 Understanding Psychological Disorders
The process of testing ideas about the nature of psychological phenomena without bias before accepting these ideas as adequate explanations.
What is the Scientific Method of research.
The method of organization of the previous diagnostic and statistical manual.
What are the five axis of the DSM-IV?
How well a test measures what it is designed to measure.
What is validity?
A specific version of a gene.
What is an allele?
A childhood disorder is characterized by a chronic combination of chronic movement and vocal tics.
What is Tourette's disorder?
The two key symptoms of Schizophrenia.
What are delusions and hallucinations?
People with this disorder have depressive symptoms for at least 2 years.
What is persistent depressive disorder?
The emotional response to a real or perceived imminent threat.
What is fear?
When the amount of caffeine consumed by a group of students increases as well as their quiz grades.
What is a positive correlation.
A disorder characterized by disruption of normal integration of consciousness, memory, sense of self, or perception.
What is dissociative disorder?
A broad range of measurement techniques that involve having people provide scorable information about psychological functioning.
What is psychological assessment?
A form of psychiatric neurosurgery in which permanently implanted electrodes trigger responses in specific brain circuits.
What is neuromodulation?
A disorder where there is significant delay or deficit in an academic skill.
What is a specific learning disorder?
The belief that another person is trying to inflict harm on you or someone you care about.
What are delusions of persecution?
This diagnosis is used with children who exhibit chronic and severe irritability and frequent temper outbursts on average 3 or more times per week for the past year in at least 2 settings.
What is disruptive mood dysregulation disorder?
When one experiences intense and inappropriate anxiety about leaving home or their attachment figure.
What is separation anxiety?
What is a Case Study method.
Publication that contains descriptions of the various psychological disorders.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders?
A method used to objectively assess a client's behavior and functioning in several spheres, paying particular attention to symptoms associated with psychological disturbance.
What is the Mini-Mental Status Exam?
The observed and measurable characteristic that results from the combination of environmental and genetic influences.
What is a phenotype?
What are neurodevelopmental disorders?
Exaggerations or distortions of normal thoughts, emotions, and behavior.
What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
This disorder involves changes in mood, irritability, dysphoria, and anxiety during the premenstrual phase and subside after the end trial period begins for the past year.
What is premenstrual dysphoric disorder?
When one refuses to talk in certain situations.
What is selective mutism?
A manipulated experimental factor.
What is an independent variable.
Disorders that involve impairment in thought processes caused by medical conditions.
What are Neurocognitive Disorders?
A form of measurement based on the objective recording of an individual's behavior.
What are behavioral assessments?
These theorists believe the ego is the main force in personality.
Who are Karen Horney and Alfred Adler?
Most efficacious way to help children to stop the repetitive behaviors associated with stereotypic motor disorders.
Lack of initiative, either not wanting to take any action or lacking the energy and will to take action.
What is avolition?
There are symptom difference between Bipolar I and Bipolar II disorders.
What is the presence of a manic episode in Bipolar I and major depressive and a hypo manic episode in Bipolar II disorder?
When a person fears becoming humiliated or embarrassed in front of other people.
What is social anxiety disorder?
The interaction in which biological, psychological, & Sociocultural factors play a role in the development of an individual’s symptoms.
What is the Biopsychosocial perspective.
Someone who goes to medical school and treats mental disorders.
Who is a psychiatrist?
A test that evaluates executive functioning, and focuses on attention, scanning of visual stimuli, and number sequencing.
What is the Trail Making Test?
When a person receives a reinforcement after abstaining from a behavior for a specific amount of time.
What is contingency management?
Difficulty understanding numbers, learning arithmetic facts, and performing accurate calculations.
What is dyscalculia?
Association, Affect, Ambivalence, and Autism.
What are Bleuler’s Four A’s?
The disorder where one fluctuates between depressive and hypo manic symptoms but doesn’t never has met the criteria for a hypo manic or major depressive episode.
What is Cyclothymic Disorder?
Part of the brain involved in processing fear and thought to contain disturbances that lead to the experience of anxiety.
What is the amygdala?