Ch 1 and 2: Foundations and History
This term counts only NEW cases of a disorder during a set period.
What is incidence?
Vulnerability plus a stressor equals a disorder.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
A test that gives consistent results has this quality.
What is reliability?
Often called the stress hormone, it is released through the HPA system.
What is cortisol?
The first-line treatment for OCD.
What is exposure and response prevention?
This Greek physician blamed the four humors, not demons.
Who is Hippocrates?
A cause that must be present for a disorder to occur.
What is a necessary cause?
The best-known objective personality test, with L, F and K validity scales.
What is the MMPI-2?
The part of Type A behavior most linked to heart disease.
What is hostility?
Chronic, uncontrollable worry about many different things.
What is generalized anxiety disorder?
The only research design that can show cause and effect.
What is an experiment?
Yelling at your dog when you are angry at your boss.
What is displacement?
Ten inkblots make up this projective test.
What is the Rorschach?
Trauma symptoms that start soon after the event; past 4 weeks, the diagnosis can change to PTSD.
What is acute stress disorder?
Mowrer's theory: fear learned by classical conditioning, kept going by avoidance.
What is two-process theory?
He removed the chains from patients at La Bicetre in Paris.
Who is Philippe Pinel?
A risk factor that cannot be changed.
What is a fixed marker?
Fixed questions in a set order make this kind of interview more reliable.
What is a structured interview?
Distress out of proportion to an ordinary stressor like a divorce.
What is adjustment disorder?
In the cognitive theory of panic, what people do with harmless bodily sensations, like reading a racing heart as a heart attack.
What is catastrophizing?
This 1500s German physician, considered the founder of modern psychopathology, argued that people accused of witchcraft were mentally ill.
Who is Johann Weyer?
A sociable child seeks out friends and builds social skills: this type of gene-environment correlation.
What is active?
The World Health Organization's classification system.
What is the ICD-11?
Flashbacks and nightmares belong to this PTSD symptom group.
What is intrusion?
In panic treatment, deliberately bringing on feared bodily sensations, like a racing heart, until they lose their power.
What is interoceptive exposure?