Abnormal: Past and Present
Abnormal behavior have patterns that are typically these four things:
What are deviant, distressing, dangerous and dysfunctional?
Basic strategies developed by the ego to avoid or reduce anxiety
What are defense mechanisms?
The inkblot test is formally called this
What is the Rorschach test?
A persistent fear of a specific object
What is specific phobia?
This activates the autonomic nervous system and the endocrine system
What is the hypothalamus?
The view that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological
What is the psychogenic perspective?
The three leading kinds of biological treatment used today
What are drug therapy, brain stimulation and psychosurgery?
Requires that the client interprets vague stimuli, such as ambiguous pictures
What is projective test?
This group of theorists argue that unconditional positive regard could ultimately set the stage for Generalized Anxiety Disorder
What are the humanistic theorists?
This disorder occurs within four (4) weeks of a traumatic event and last for less than a month
What is acute stress disorder?
The use of various technologies to deliver mental health services without the therapist being physically present
What is telemental health?
The sociocultural model is composed of these two major perspectives
What are the family-social perspective and the multicultural perspective?
This type of validity is the degree to which the measures gathered from one tool agrees with the measures gathered from other assessment techniques
What is concurrent validity?
Albert Ellis' therapeutic technique that points out the irrational assumptions held by clients, suggest more appropriate assumptions and assign homework is called this
What is rational-emotive therapy?
The brain's _____ circuit includes the amygdala, prefrontal cortex, hippocampus and other structures
What is stress?
The statistical term used to describe the direction and magnitude of a correlation
What is correlation coefficient?
This principle says that a number of different developmental pathways can lead to the same psychological disorder
What is equifinality?
This is the most widely used personality inventory
What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
People who have this disorder have sometimes had their problem described as free-floating anxiety
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
The final merging of two or more personalities is called this
What is fusion?
WEIRD stands for this
What is Westernized, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic?
Symbolic meaning of a dream according to Sigmund Freud
What is latent content?
The classification system developed by the World Health Organization is called this
What is the International Classification of Diseases?
The developmental psychopathology perspective focuses on the _____ and _____ of important factors at key points of _____ throughout an individual's life span.
What are intersection, context, time?
Psychodynamic theorists think that this defense mechanism could lead to a dissociative disorder
What is repression?