Psychopathology
These mental health professionals typically have a PsyD or PhD. Many focus on assessment and research for their professional careers.
Who are clinical psychologists.
A type of Operant Conditioning schedule that reinforces behavior by regularly provided a reward for the desired behavior.
This population is over-diagnosed with schizophrenia in the US.
Who are African Americans?
This tells us how likely it is that the results of a study occurred by chance.
What is Statistical Significance?
This neurotransmitter plays an important role in regulating the fuctioning of muscle systems.
What is Dopamine?
This type of behavioral conditioning focuses on rewards and consequences.
What is Operant Conditioning?
These theorists focus on the influence of reinforcement and punishment in producing behavior.
Who are Behaviorists?
This term is used in the DSM to describe disorders that overlap.
What is comorbidity?
The factor that is manipulated to see if it has any effect.
What is the dependent variable?
This therapy treatment occurs in a hospital under sedation and has been shown to help in treatment-resistant depression as well as disorders, such as catatonia. It typically takes 6-12 sessions for it to take effect.
What is ECT?
Dysfunction, Distress, Deviance, and Dangerousness are facets that help us identify this.
What is Abnormal Behavior?
The response created by the unconditioned stimulus in Pavlov's experiment.
What is the conditioned response?
This text is used globally for diagnostic health information.
This technology has made it more difficult for people to access accurate health-related knowledge.
What is social media?
This type of behavioral learning only involves observing the behaviors of important people.
What is modeling?
This early figure in psychopathology argued that psychological disorders are caused by irrational negative assumptions about one's self and the world.
This type of drug is used to treat hallucinations and delusions.
What is an antipsychotic?
This test is used to assess individuals' sensorimotor skills by having the patient reproduce a set of nine drawings.
What is the Bender-Gestalt test?
This may eventually be dropped or modified if the null hypothesis continuously gets more support than the alternative hypothesis.
What is the primary hypothesis? (Null hypothesis is the prediction that there will be no correlation)
This neurotransmitter plays a major role in the development of both depressive and anxiety disorders.
What is Norepinephrine?
This Viennese psychiatrist discovered the connection between syphilis and psychiatric symptoms.
Who is Richard Krafft-Ebing?
In addition to treating anxiety, this medication class is commonly used to help with sleep.
Benzodiazephines.
This term is used to refer to symptoms that cluster together.
What is a syndrome?
This is the probability that in an identical twin pair, both twins will have a disorder if one twin has a disorder.
What is the concordance rate?
This term is used to describe when a patient experiences a strong release of emotions.
What is catharsis?