History
Etiology used when saying that someone's auditory hallucinations are due to the recent lunar eclipse.
Supernatural.
Learned helplessness in animals resembles this disorder in humans.
Depression.
Method involving obtaining detailed information about a person's life and experiences when trying to understand and help an individual with a psychological problem.
Clinical interview.
Main marker of an experimental research design, but not a correlational research design.
Presence of manipulation.
Two etiologies for mental illness proposed in Europe and the US in the 19th century.
Somatogenic and Psychogenic.
Approach stating that multiple genes rather than one gene are responsible for autism spectrum disorder.
Polygenic.
During his assessment, the clinician asked Abernathy if he knows his own name, what the date, time, and year it was, and where they were. Which category of a mental status exam do these questions cover?
Sensorium.
Public health researchers demonstrated that the more people smoked, the more likely they were to develop lung cancer. This suggests that smoking and lung cancer are?
Positively correlated.
The Egyptians and Greeks used strong smells to treat hysteria because they believed ___________ to be the cause of the illness.
Wondering uterus.
In the diathesis-stress model, “diathesis” refers to this aspect of a mental disorder.
Genetic makeup (genotype).
When asked to administer an IQ test, the researcher emphasizes that the administration must be “by the book” – an actual manual that explicitly tells the clinician what to do and say when administering the test. What term is used for this specification?
Standardization.
Studies that have significant confounders are said to be low in this characteristic of a good psychological measure.
Internal validity.
Greek physician Galen was one of the first physicians to believe that mental illness could be caused by this factor.
Psychological stress.
Anna is embarrassed when her mom sings in the car in front of her friends. When her mother's favorite song comes on the radio, Anna sinks into her seat with embarrassment. In this scenario, which is the neutral stimulus?
Music.
Psychotic symptom characterized by the belief that God sent you on a mission to save the world and gave you the ability to hear people's thoughts at all time, when no evidence is present.
Delusion of grandeur.
Procedure used to prevent researchers' and participants' expectations from biasing a study's outcome interpretation.
Double-blind procedure.
Hysteria treatment from 1800s' Europe addressing the imbalance in a patient's magnetic fluid.
Mesmerism.
Rescorla demonstrated that _____________ is more important in classical conditioning than temporal contiguity.
Contingency.
Dr. Holguin develops a brief versions of an anxiety inventory. In one session, he administers his short version of the inventory along with an extensively used anxiety inventory to his participants to see if the results are similar. What is Dr. Holguin assessing to ensure that his measurement is trustworthy?
Concurrent validity.
Within the comparative treatment research, focusing on why Drug A alleviates a symptom more than Drug B is an example of this process.
Treatment.