Defining Behavior Disorders
These are potential components of a behavior disorder. However, none of these things are necessary or sufficient to define a behavior disorder.
(three responses)
What is:
Social abnormality, subjective distress, and dysfunction?
A function of classification, looking at and observing a phenomenon
What is:
Descriptive Pathology?
the idea that all anxieties are developed and maintained by the same processes
What is:
lumping?
A stimulus that elicits a reflexive response
(you do not need to have prior exposure or learning to respond to this stimulus.)
What is:
unconditioned stimulus?
This refers normal and natural differences in brain functioning from person to person.
What is:
neurodiversity?
It is associated with risk of injury to self and others, is a barrier to physical and mental health treatment, and associated with social problems, but it is NOT a behavior disorder.
What is:
toxic masculinity?
The ultimate goal of a classification system
What is:
utility?
Fear of negative evaluation and scrutiny by others are crucial parts of this diagnosis.
What is:
Social Anxiety Disorder?
Initially neutral stimulus that first has no associated response but becomes associated with an adverse outcome
What is:
Conditioned Stimulus?
An individual who is pretending to have a disorder that they do not have is ___________.
What is:
malingering?
The idea that behavior disorders are a choice is most closely associated with this model of psychopathology.
What is:
the moral model?
Access to insurance coverage is an example of this purpose of classification.
What are:
sociopolitical functions?
This is when stimulus-response pairings are learned slowly over time.
What is:
insidious acquisition?
From a young age, your parent has told you that if you eat fast food, you will get food poisoning. You now fear fast food, and never eat at fast food restaurants. This fear was developed through __ __.
What is:
instructional transference?
The ideas that biological impulses give rise to behavioral motivations and behavior disorders represent defense mechanisms came from this school of thought.
What is:
Freudian?
The difference between a malfunction and a dysfunction is...
What is:
Malfunction is when a function is happening, but it's the wrong one (e.g. cancer, cells doing things that they shouldn’t) whereas dysfunction is an impairment in the function that is making it not happen (e.g. a heart attack is caused by the heart being impaired of its normal/regular functions).
This researcher sent his research assistants to admit themselves into psych wards to show the flaws in the psychiatric institution system
What is:
David Rosenhan?
According to Craighead, Individuals with panic disorder are more likely to fear procedures that elicit bodily sensations similar to the ones experienced during panic attacks. This is an example of a _______ Feature of Panic Disorder.
What is:
Cognitive?
According to __ __, fear can develop without direct experience with the given stimulus.
What is:
vicarious conditioning (modeling)?
The idea of defense mechanisms are most closely associated with this psychiatrist.
What is:
Sigmund Freud?
Widiger and Sankis (2000) suggest using this term rather than "harmful dysfunction."
What is:
"dyscontrolled maladaptivity?"
Conflict between different schools of psychiatry led to the DSM-III being described as ___________.
What is:
theoretically agnostic?
Mowrer's idea that if you can experience it, it can be conditioned (classical conditioning) and behaviors are maintained through reinforcement and punishment (operant conditioning).
What is:
the Two-Factor Theory?
This is when bodily sensations become conditioned and elicit further arousal.
What is:
interoceptive conditioning?
This disorder changed the trajectory of psychiatry during the 1800s by providing empirical evidence against assumptions about mental illness.
What is:
dementia paralytica?