Interferes with a person's ability to function in daily life, to hold a job, or to form close relationships.
What is dysfunctional?
100
The process of systematically gathering and evaluating information through careful observations to gain an understanding of a phenomenon.
What is the scientific method?
100
A set of assumptions and concepts to help scientists explain and interpret observations.
What is a model?
100
Describes how consistent the results of a test are over time.
What is reliability?
100
Glands throughout the body and the hormones they release into the bloodstream.
What is the endocrine system?
200
Difficulty meeting day-to-day demands and adapting to one's environment.
What is maladaptive behavior?
200
A detailed account of a person's life and psychological problems.
What is a case study?
200
The largest, uppermost part of the brain, containing the most neurons. It is the part that makes us human, and is divided into 2 hemispheres with 4 lobes each.
What is the cerebral cortex?
200
The process of gathering information about one's symptoms and the possible causes of these symptoms.
What is clinical assessment?
200
A sham treatment that the participant in an experiment believes to be genuine.
What is placebo therapy?
300
Ceremony done to get evil spirits to leave the body.
What is an exorcism?
300
Research procedure used to determine how much events or characteristics vary along with each other.
What is the correlational method?
300
Part of the brain responsible for higher-order functions; often a focus in abnormal behavior.
What is the prefrontal cortex?
300
Accuracy of a test in assessing what it is supposed to.
What is validity?
300
Blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile influence mental and physical functioning
What is balance or imbalance of humors?
400
The use of a stone instrument to cut a circular section of the skull.
What is trephination?
400
Number based on statistical analysis used to indicate the strength and direction of a relationship. Ranges from -1.00 to +1.00
What is the correlation coefficient?
400
Biochemicals that act as messengers carrying impulses from one neuron to another in the brain and other parts of the nervous system.
What are neurotransmitters?
400
Process in which a test is administered to a large group of people whose performance then serves as a standard or norm against which any individual's scores can be measured.
What is standardization?
400
Model asserting that behavior is determined by interacting psychological forces outside of our awareness.
What is the psychodynamic model?
500
Abnormal behavior is largely due to psychological causes
What is psychogenic perspective?
500
Study that measures the incidence and prevalence of a disorder in a given population.
What is an epidemiological study?
500
Drugs that primarily affect the brain and reduce many symptoms of mental dysfunction.
What are psychotropic medications?
500
A set of interview questions and observations designed to reveal the degree and nature of a client's abnormal functioning.
What is a mental status exam?
500
Humanistic therapy developed by Carl Rogers in which the therapist communicates a genuineness in his or her role as a helper to the client, acting as an authentic person rather than as an authority figure.