Historical & Cultural Context
Who coined the term "mental illness?"
Johnn Weyer
Is the the prevalence rate of mental illness among people in poverty higher or lower than those who do not live in poverty?
Higher
What is the way we operationalize intelligence?
IQ
List the Big 5 personality traits.
OCEAN
Name 1 of the disorders that is known to be mostly equal in prevalence across the gender.
Schizophrenia, OCD, or Bipolar Disorders
Who was Dorothea Dix?
An activist who lobbied for the moral treatment of psychiatric patients
What are the 2 theories we discussed when thinking about the link between SES and mental illness?
Social causation theory and Downward drift theory
If someone has an IQ of 79, are they above or below the average IQ?
Below
Someone who is described as organized, diligent, and hardworking is likely high on which Big 5 trait?
Conscientiousness
What DSM diagnosis is still required for those seeking gender-affirming surgery?
Gender dysphoria
Which version of the DSM was the first to include the concept of cultural awareness?
DSM 3
What is a mediator variable?
A variable that explains the relationship between other variables
Imagine you are doing an IQ test on a child. You ask them to draw a person going through a maze as quickly as they can. This is an example of which kind of IQ task?
Performance task
Is your personality stable throughout your life?
Not in childhood, but increasingly so over the lifespan
Which DSM diagnosis has been critiqued for being gender biased towards females?
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
When someone is uncomfortable by the symptoms they are experiencing, this is referred to as which of the 4 D's?
Distress
In the article Poverty and Common Mental Disorders, the authors identified one indicator of poverty that was most consistently linked to mental illness. What was it?
Low education levels
Depression and anxiety
Which of the Big 5 personality traits is predictive of goosebumps?
Openness
Regarding the way various mental illnesses manifest across the genders, it's understood that women often experience more ___ concerns, whereas men often experience more ___ concerns.
Internalizing; Externalizing
In the reading Resilience in Sri Lanka, what were the 2 key differences in the way Sri Lankans conceptualize trauma vs. those in the US?
1) More emphasis on physical symptoms
2) More emphasis on damage to social relations
When thinking about the impacts of poverty on mental illness, the Social Causation Theory claims that ___ precedes ___, whereas the Downward Drift Theory claims that ___ precedes ___.
Poverty; Mental illness
Mental illness; Poverty
In the article Childhood IQ and Adult Mental Disorders, which "confounders" was most strongly related to childhood IQ?
SES
Neuroticism
Nolen-Hoeksema (2002) discuss the different reasons for why women might experience depression at a higher rate than men. What is the name of their model/theory for why this is?
Integrative model (both social and biological reasons)