Indigenous Psychology
This form of racism occurs at the level of individual beliefs or behaviours, such as racist comments directed at a person.
Individual racism
This term refers to the shared values, beliefs, and behaviours of a group passed across generations.
Culture
What are the three Ds used to define abnormal behaviour?
Dysfunction, distress, and deviance
Difference between population and sample
Population - The entire group of people that a researcher is interested in
Sample - Smaller subset of sample
This term describes the ongoing effects of historical trauma passed down across generations due to colonisation.
intergenerational trauma
This process describes how individuals learn and internalise the norms and values of their culture.
Enculturation
A psychologist explains that a client’s panic attacks began after a series of stressful life events, but notes the client also had a genetic predisposition to anxiety.
diathesis–stress model
A new disease that has just emerged... What type of research method would be the most suitable to understand the new disease more?
Descriptive case study
This concept involves reflecting on power, privilege, and bias, and taking responsibility to create respectful and equitable environments in practice.
cultural safety
This perspective focuses on studying behaviour from within a specific culture, building theories based on that culture.
Emic
A 19-year-old university student reports constant worry about grades, finances, and relationships for over 6 months. They feel restless, fatigued, struggle to concentrate, and have trouble sleeping. The worry is difficult to control and affects daily functioning.
Generalised Anxiety Disorder (GAD)
Ethan recently created a new test measure for the Generalised Anxiety Disorder and wanted to check its reliability. He asks two different psychologists to test it out on a volunteer. What kind of reliability is Ethan checking for?
Inter-rater Reliability
Connection to spirit, spirituality and Ancestors; Connection to body and behaviours; Connection to mind and emotions; Connection to family & kinship; Connection to Community; Connection to Culture; Connection to Country & Land
In Berry’s model of acculturation, this orientation involves maintaining one’s original culture while also participating in a new culture.
Integration
A person reports hearing voices that others cannot hear, strongly believes strangers are sending them secret messages through TV, and shows disorganised speech. These symptoms significantly impair functioning.
schizophrenia (positive symptoms)
The act of keeping information gained while engaging in psychological research safeguarded so that it remains confidential.
A clinician focuses only on diagnosing depression using Western criteria, ignoring the client’s connection to family, community, and Country when understanding their distress.
Western deficit-based model of mental health
This term describes the tendency to view one’s own culture as normal and judge other cultures as inferior or strange.
Ethnocentrism
A client shows mild depressive symptoms for over 2 years, including low energy, poor self-esteem, and hopelessness, but symptoms are less severe than major depression and never absent for more than 2 months.
Persistent Depressive Disorder (Dysthymia)
List out the 6 steps to conduct an experiment
1. Frame hypothesis
2. Operationalise variables
3. Develop a standardised procedures
4. Select and assign participants
5. Apply statistical techniques to the data
6. Draw conclusions