CH 1 & 2
Models
Childhood Disorders
100
How we define "abnormality."
What is Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, and Dangerousness?
100
This model focuses on genetics, chemical makeup, viral infections and others to explain abnormal behavior.
What is the biological model?
100
Inattentive, combined, hyper-active
What are the sub types of ADHD?
200
The release of hundreds of thousands of patients from public mental hospitals.
What is deinstitutionalization?
200
This explanation of abnormal behavior revolves around a reward structure
What is operant conditioning?
300
The detailed, interpretive study of one person's life and psychological ills. Lacking validity and reliability, but offering insight to new therapeutic techniques.
What is a case study?
300
Treatments like Alcoholics Anonymous, couples therapy, and family therapy fall under this paradigm.
What is the sociocultural perspective on treatment?
400
The only research method discussed that allows for the determination of causality.
What is an experiment?
400
This paradigm utilizes methods pioneered by Beck and Ellis
What is cognitive paradigm?
500
the group of research participants that are not exposed to the independent variable.
What is the control group?
500
This paradigm seeks to understand that people are more than their learned behaviors, conflicts, and/or cognitions; but rather have the ability to pursue philosophical goals or self-awareness and a sense of meaning in life.
What is the humanistic/existential paradigm?
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