The term for someone who systematically gathers information in order to describe, predict, and explain abnormality is a ____________.
What is a scientist
100
This word means loss of contact with reality.
What is psychosis
100
If you experienced ___________, you would have a hole cut in your skull to let evil spirits out.
What is trephination
100
“Understanding a person’s unconscious processes is critical in explaining abnormality.” Which model of abnormality does this quote MOST closely represent?
What is psychodynamic
100
A person experiencing multiple personalities would MOST accurately be diagnosed with dissociative __________:
What is identity disorder
200
A medical researcher develops a drug that decreases symptoms of depression and other “mood” disorders. The general term for this type of drug is:
What is psychotropic or antidepressant
200
This term means when two disorders may occur together in an individual.
What is Comorbidity
200
What model of mental illness did most people hold during the Middle Ages
What is the demonology model
200
The model of abnormality that concentrates on thought processes is the:
What is cognitive model.
200
A state of breathless euphoria, or frenzied energy, in which individuals have an exaggerated belief in their power describes:
What is mania.
300
True or False: There is no single definition of abnormality, no one theoretical understanding of the causes of mental illness, and no single best treatment.
What is True
300
The manipulation of a variable by the researcher characterizes this style of reserach
What is experimental
300
The American schoolteacher who lobbied state legislatures for laws to mandate human treatment of people with mental disorders was:
What is Dorothea Dix.
300
If a researcher believes that dissociative identity disorders are iatrogenic, that researcher believes that dissociative identity disorders are unintentionally produced by _____________?
The therapists
300
To be classified as having a major depressive episode, depression must last for a period of at least:
What is two weeks
400
The MOST common group of mental disorders in the United States are the:
What is anxiety disorders.
400
The process of evaluating a person’s progress after being in treatment is called _________ ___________:
What is clinical assessment
400
True or False: Deinstitutionalization has placed many people with severe disturbances in jail or on the street and not receiving the services they need.
True
400
This approach to depression has reveled that it is related to an abnormality in the activity of certain neurotransmitters, especially serotonin and norepinephrine.
What is biological
400
Delusions, disorganized thinking and speech, heightened perceptions and hallucinations, and inappropriate affect are examples of ______ symptoms of schizophrenia.
What are positive
500
People who have a biological vulnerability for anxiety, which is then triggered by social and psychological factors, may develop anxiety disorders, according to the _________-
___________ model.
What is diathesis-stress model.
500
The stated and unstated rules for proper conduct that a society establishes are referred to as:
What are norms
500
A friend says to you, “I wonder how likely I am to qualify for a DSM diagnosis in my lifetime.” Based upon survey results, your MOST accurate answer would be (assuming your friend is “typical”):
What is Likely- about 50%
500
The strongest evidence for the cause of bipolar disorders BEST supports which theoretical perspective or model?
What is biological
500
Personality disorders are categorized into three main cluster, name at least two: