Ch 1: Looking at Abnormality
_____ is the scientific study of psychological disorders.
What is psychopathology?
Therapies refer to treatments, where ____ refer to the sets of ideas that provides a framework for questioning, gathering, and interpreting information about a phenomenon.
What are theories?
______ is a label given to a set of symptoms that tend to occur together.
What is a diagnosis?
_________ is a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some misfortune.
What is anxiety?
Thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are considered _______ when they interfere with the person's ability to hold a job, form close relationships, or engage in daily life.
What is dysfunctional?
______ is a biochemical messenger that carries impulses from one neuron to another.
What is a neurotransmitter?
The _____ is used by most professionals to diagnose and classify psychopathology.
What is the DSM-5?
Types of specific phobias include animal type, blood-injection-injury type, situational type, other type, and ______ type.
What is natural environment type?
Historical perspectives of psychopathology have included three major theories: biological, psychological, and ________.
What is supernatural?
This paradigm (or founder) believes disorders are due to a denial of innate goodness.
What is Humanistic? (or who is Carl Rogers?)
Clinicians & researchers use brain ____ to determine if a patient has an injury, tumor, structural abnormality, or difference in activity
What is imaging?
_____ is a theory of etiology for anxiety disorders which proposes that they are classically conditioned & operantly maintained.
What is Mowrer's two-factor theory?
A cultural ______ believes there are no universal standards of what is normal or abnormal.
What is relativist?
What is the diathesis-stress model?
_____ are types of assessments involving the presentation of ambiguous stimulus, such as an inkblot, to a client, who then communicates unconscious motives and issues onto the stimulus in their interpretation of its content.
What are projective tests?
People with panic disorders may have heightened awareness of bodily cues that signal a coming panic attack. This is called ______ _______.
What is interoceptive awareness?
A _________ model of abnormality proposes that no clear dividing line exists between normal variations in thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and what would be labeled as “abnormal."
What is continuum?
_____ is the neurotransmitter associated with reinforcements and rewards.
What is dopamine?
______ is an assessment of psychopathology that allows professionals to assess the impact of disorder on client’s current well-being.
What is a mental status exam?
______ is a cognitive-behavioral treatment for OCD in which clients confront obsessions and do not perform compulsive behaviors.
What is exposure and response prevention?