Chapter 1: Historical Context
What are the four D's of Abnormal Psychology?
Danger
Dysfunction
Distress
Deviance
What is the temporal lobe responsible for?
Hearing, facial recognition
What is the difference between reliability and validity?
Reliability: The test is consistent
Validity: How well does the test measure what it is supposed to
What is civil commitment?
Involuntary commitment to a psychiatric facility due to someones behavior or mental state
What is the role of myelin?
Insulate neurons and transmit information faster and more accurately
What is an example of environmental and biological influxes on behavior?
Environmental: trauma, family relationships, bullying, etc.
Biological: hormones, genetic influence, brain structure and function, etc.
What are the two major systems of your nervous system and what do they contain?
Peripheral: everything else
Central: brain and spinal cord
What is generalizability?
What is the Duty to Warn?
A mandatory reporter's duty to warn someone if their life has been threatened
Control the release of hormones
What is the official name for the DSM-5 (TR)?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, 5th Edition, Text Revised
What is an example of something your autonomic nervous system controls?
Heart rate, breathing, blood pressure, blinking, etc.
What is statistical significance?
The chance that a result is meaningful and not due to chance
What is the legal defense for the Insanity Plea?
The person was unable to distinguish right from wrong at the time of the crime
What is the role of the frontal lobe?
Thinking and reasoning, memory, speech, smell, motor control.
What is acute vs insidious onset?
Acute: Symptoms appear quickly
Insidious: Symptoms appear over time
Which end of a neuron receives information and which end sends out information?
Dendrites: receive
Axon: send
What is an example of a negative correlation?
As people get older, they tend to have less sleep problems.
What are the three criterias for civil commitment?
Person has a mental illness and needs treatment, person is dangerous to self or others, inability to care for oneself.
What are the roles/differences in the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system?
Parasympathetic: chill, digestion, etc.
What is Emotion Contagion?
The automatic, often unconscious, adoption of another persons emotions and behaviors through mimicry
What is the main excitatory neurotransmitter?
Glutamate
Why are twin studies important in research?
It allows us to see the difference between biological and environmental differences.
What are the two requirements for legal competence?
Understanding of legal charges, ability to represent oneself.
How do SSRI's work?
Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors: prevent the reuptake or recycling of serotonin in order to give the receiving cell more available neurotransmitter to use