Abnormal Psychology
Scientific study that gathers information to describe, predict, and explain abnormality is defined as __________; whereas the study of psychological disorders is known as_______
What is Abnormal Psychology ; What is Psychopathology?
These are the models of abnormailty
What is biological, psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic-existential, and sociocultural?
Information consisting of clinical interviews, psychological tests, behavioral observations, gathered to determine how and why a person is behaving abnormally
What is a clinical assessment?
A person experiences wide-ranging and persistent feelings of worry and anxiety. This is MOST likely _______ disorder
What is Generalized Anxiety Disorder?
The _____ model of abnormality pays particular attention to the client's family structure, societal norms, and the client's roles in society.
What is the socio-cultural model?
1) These are the 4D's of abnormality.
2) Define each
1) What is deviance, distress, dysfunction, and danger?
2) Deviance -
Model of abnormality that assumes that abnormal functioning arises from inheritance, and brain function/chemistry
What is the Biological Model?
A _____ test is one that has been set up with common steps to be followed whenever it is administered.
What is standardized?
Every once in a while, Ona feels nervous to the point of terror. This feeling seems to come on suddenly and randomly. Her experience is an example of a(n):
What is panic disorder?
1) The name of the category (disorder) indicated by the client’s symptoms
2) A rating of how severe a client’s symptoms
1) What is categorical information?
2) What is dimensional information?
1) A theorist who believes that psychological factors are the primary causes of abnormal functioning adheres to the _____ perspective.
2) A theorist who believes that physical/biological factors are the primary causes of abnormal functioning adheres to the _____ perspective.
1) What is psychogenic
2) What is somatogenic?
Model that focuses on how mental processes influence an individual's behavior
What is the cognitive-behavioral model?
_______ measures the accuracy of a clinical test results while _______ measures the consistency of a clinical tests results.
What is validity; What is reliability?
Difference between fear and anxiety
Fear is a response to an instant/specific threat, whereas anxiety is a response to a potential and/or vague threat.
A therapist's preferred method of assessing abnormal behavior is to watch clients in their everyday environments and record their activities and behaviors. This approach is known as:
Wha is a naturalistic observation?
1) If someone knew there were currently a total of 500,000 cases of schizophrenia in the United States, that person would know the _____ of schizophrenia in the United States.
2) Ten new cases of schizophrenia were diagnosed in a small town in the Midwest this week. This observation refers to the _____ of schizophrenia in this small population.
1) What is Prevalence?
2) What is Incidence?
1) Model that focuses on an individuals potential to self-actualization (striving to be the best through honest recognition of strengths and weaknesses) and having self-awareness that their lives are authentic.
2) How does Carl Rogers view how abnormal functioning arises?
3) What is the first step one needs to sustain in order to combat a psychological disorder according to Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
1) What is the Humanistic model?
2) What is through conditions of worth?
3) What is physiological needs?
1) A depression questionnaire is able to determine the diagnosis for your depressive symptoms. This questionnaire has a high _______
2) The questions on an intelligence test seem to appropriately ask the correct questions for one's intelligence at face value. This intelligence test is said to have a high _______
3) The results of your mental status exam is able to predict your final grade in PSY 202. This test is said to have a high _______
4) All students at CSI who are asked for example who was the US president during WW2 will all have the correct answer. This notes that this type of test has a high _______
1) What is construct validity?
2) What is face validity?
3) What is predictive validity?
4) What is external validity?
Derrick tries to interact with as few people as possible during the workday. He doesn't engage in any nonwork events such as birthday celebrations or happy hours, because he thinks he is socially awkward and will make a fool of himself. These thoughts and symptoms are consistent with:
What is Social Anxiety Disorder?
1) How do phobias differ from fear?
2) Characterized by unrealistic and persistent worry that something will happen to self or loved ones when apart
3) What are the four types of attachment?
1) What is:
Phobias are more intense and persistent in fear
There is a greater desire to avoid the feared object or situation
2) Separation Anxiety Disorder
3) Secure, Insecure-Anxious, Insecure-Avoidant, Disorganized
1) Actions deemed harmful/life-threatening (suicide, mass shooting)
2) Actions that violate societal norms (underage drinking, shoplifting)
3) Process that interfere with an individual's normal daily functioning
4) Intense and emotional and psychological suffering
1) What is Danger?
2) What is Deviance?
3) What is Dysfunction?
4) What is Distress?
1) Model that suggests that abnormal functioning arises when three psychological (personality) forces are in conflict with one another
2) Name those three forces.
1) What is the pychodynamic model?
2) What is the id, ego, and superego?
1) You take two different versions of a mental status exam and you recieve similar scores for both or better on one or the other. This mental status exam would have a high _______
2) Multiple professors scored your PSY 202 final exam, and you obtained similar scores across the board. This final exam would be said to have a high ______
3) You took an intelligence test in the morning, and then one later in the evening. You scored similar both times or you scored better on the one in the evening than the one you took in the morning. Based on these results, this test would most likely have a high_______
1) What is parallel forms of reliability?
2) What is inter-rater reliability?
3) What is test-retest reliability?
1) Nicholas has an intense fear of dogs that won't go away. He avoids looking at pictures of dogs, and sometimes he can't even leave the house when neighbors are walking their dogs. This kind of fear would be classified as which kind of disorder?
2) Difference between specific phobia and agoraphobia
1) What is a specific phobia?
2) Specific phobia is fear of objects and situations and agoraphobia is fear of situations only.
1) The cognitive-behavioral model focuses on negative mental processes that influence a person's behavior. One type of way that this could occur through learning is called:
2) Define the answer to #1
3) What are the 5 steps to achieve classical conditioning?
4) Learning through imitation
1) What is classical conditioning?
2) Learning that two events are associated with each other.
3) Neutral Stimulus, Unconditional Stimulus, Conditional Response, Conditional Stimulus
4) What is observational learning/modeling?