Abnormal Psychology
To discriminate, to separate, or to educate: it’s the best way to minimize stigma.
What is to educate?
Know sources of positive and negative sources of stigma and how to deal with it systemically.
Containing beta waves, it's the stage of sleep that is--paradoxically--most like wakefulness.
What is REM?
Know the stages of sleep, their EEG wave types, how they oscillate over the course of the night, and how they compare to wakefulness.
psychiatrist
medical psychologist
life coach
psychiatric nurse practitioner
physician
What is a life coach?
--does not require a graduate degree nor a license
--cannot prescribe medication
He was the Russian physiologist known for his discovery of how we associate stimuli with our involuntary actions as responses.
Who is Ivan Pavlov?
Statistical average.
What is the mean?
It’s the full name of the resource manual that contains every current mental health diagnosis, their symptomological criteria, and their prevalence rates.
What is the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (of Mental Disorders)?
Know the DSM-5-TR as the latest edition, what it contains, at how it works.
They're the substances or agents that can cause birth defects or increase the risk of miscarriage, stillbirth, or preterm labor.
What is a teratogen?
postconventional.
preconventional.
conventional.
periconventional.
What is periconventional?
--According to Lawrence Kohlberg, is not a level of moral reasoning.
Unfortunately a proponent of eugenics, his positive contributions to the then burgeoning field of psychology include widescale measurement of humans to begin comparing abilities, which he termed "anthropometrics."
Who is Sir Francis Galton?
In experimental design: response variable, regressand, predicted variable, measured variable, outcome variable, or target.
What is the dependent variable?
They’re the normally present and adaptive behaviors that are now absent during an active illness of schizophrenia.
What are negative symptoms?
Know positive vs. negative symptoms and what defines each.
They're the type of tests that test if you've mastered a certain domain of knowledge, usually if you have collected said knowledge or skill from a past experience.
What is an achievement test?
Know aptitude vs. achievement vs. intelligence tests.
House-Tree-Person.
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI).
Rorschach Inkblot Test (RIT)
Thematic Apperception Test (TAT).
What is the MMPI?
--is not a projective personality test.
Who is Sigmund Freud?
In the study of the "Big Five": Normal Reactions; or Emotional Stability (its reciprocal).
What is neuroticism?
It’s the mood disorder that is consistent with the highest number (yet not the highest proportion) of deaths by suicide.
What is Major Depressive Disorder?
Know MDD vs. Bipolar Disorder and correct/incorrect terms for death by suicide.
It's the schedule of reinforcement found in the glitzy slot machines of Las Vegas and, as research shows, when the schedule is based on the number of requisite responses (vice the time of the response), the most effective schedule as to reinforcement because it resists extinction.
What is a variable ratio schedule?
died by suicide.
suicide attempt.
suicidal thoughts.
committed suicide.
What is commited suicide?
--is not a recommended term around suicide.
He theorized intelligence as being based on based on a model of multiple levels, all which influence each other--The Hierarchical Model--which is today's prevailing understanding of g, s, and our differing abilities on different tasks.
Who was Philip Vernon?
Infant "personalities" -- their general emotional reactivity.
What is temperament?
It’s the personality disorder characterized by a pathological extreme shallowness, emotional immaturity, and use of flirtation and flattery as a way of meeting the need to be the center of attention.
What is Histrionic Personality Disorder?
Know the PDs discussed in class (Narcissistic, Borderline, Histrionic, Antisocial).
It's the first of four Piagetian stages, in which humans experience their world and build cognition through kinesthetics, haptics, olfaction, etc.
What is the sensorimotor period?
Know the four stages, in order, and what corresponds to each stage.
agreeableness.
conscientiousness.
openness to new experiences.
emotional stability.
--Does not tend to increase throughout lifespan in our culture.
They were the scientists responsible for discovering more about the action potential along the neuronal axon based on their foundational experiments using the giant squid.
Who were (Alan) Hodgkin and (Andrew) Huxley?
In the study of the "Big Five": Extraversion.
What is emotional dominance?