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44 Cards in this Set
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Maladaptive behavior detrimental to an individual and/or a group
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Abnormal behavior
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Position that one cannot apply universal standards of normality or abnormality to all societies.
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Cultural relevance
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Term used to describe a disorder of sudden onset, usually with intense symptoms
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Acute
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term used to describe a long-standing or frequently recurring disorder, often with progressing seriousness
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Chronic
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a theoretical viewpoint organized around the theme that learning is central in determining human behavior.
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Behaviorism
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A theoretical viewpoint organized around the theme that learning is central in determining human behavior
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Behavioral Perspective
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discharge of emotional tension associated with something, such as by talking about past traumas
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Catharsis
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occurrence o two or more identified disorders in the same psychologically disordered individual
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Comorbidity
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movement to close mental hospitals and treat people with severe mental disorders in the community.
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Deinstitutionalization
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method involving the recording, description, and interpretation of a patients dreams
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Dream analysis
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Study of the distribution of diseases, disorders, or halth-related behaviors in a GIVEN POPULATION
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Epidemiology
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the clustering of certain traits, behaviors, or disorders within a given famiy. ______ May arise because of genetic or environmental similarities.
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Famly aggregation
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method for probing the unconscious by having patients talk freely about themeslves, their feelings, and their motives.
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Free association
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occurrent (onset) rate of a given disorder in a given population
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Incidence
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the proportion of living persons in a population who have ever had a disorder up to the time of the epidemiological assessment
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Lifetime Prevalence
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movement that advocated a method of treatment focused almost exclusively on the physical well-being of hospitalized mental patients
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Mental Hygiene movement
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Group of physicians in the nineteenth century Europe who accepted the view that hysteria was a sot of self hypnosis
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Nancy school
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a relationship between two variables such that a high score on one variable is associated with a low score on another variable.
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Negative Correlation
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a formalized naming system
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Nomenclature
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the number of cases of a specific condition or disorder that are documented in a population with a 1-period time
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One-year prevalence
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a relationship between two variables such that a high score on one variables is associated with a high score on another variable.
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Point prevalence
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in a population, the proportion of active cases if a disorder that can be identified at a given point in, or during a given period of time.
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Prevalence
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theory of psychopathology, initially developed by Freud, which emphasised the inner dynamics of unconscious motives
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Psychoanalytic Perspective
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method of trying to uncover the probable causes of abnormal behavior by looking backward from the present.
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Retrospective Strategy
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the process of selecting a representative subgroup from a defined population of interest
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Sampling
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in psychoanalytic theory, a major portion of the mind, which consists of a hidden mass of instincts, impulses
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unconscious
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the very influential schools of thinking and modern psychology
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behaviorism
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"if psychology is a true science we need to focus on observable behaviors"
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Watson
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Classical conditioning
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Pavlov
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Operant Conditioning or instrumental conditioning
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Skinner
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bit by dog, fears dog
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discrimination
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only fears the type of dog that bit him
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Generalization
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form of learning in which if a particular response is reinforced, it becomes more likely to be repeated on similar occasions
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Operant conditioning or Instrumental conditoning
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a relationship between two variables such that a high score on one variable is associated with a high score or another variable
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Positive correlation
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when association is broken it will lose power
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Pavlov- exstinction
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watch people who are at risk for a disorder to see if they do develop a disorder
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Prospective
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A process of behavior modification by which a subject comes to respond in a desired manner to a previously neutral stimulus that has been repeatedly presented along with an unconditioned stimulus that elicits the desired response.
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Classic Conditioning
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a relationship between two variables such that a high score on one variable is associated with a low score on another variable.
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Negative Correlation
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ab= normal=
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ab= away from
Normal= standard typical there is no universal definition of abnormal |
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Psychopathology
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Psyche= mind
Pathology= sickness |
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maladaptiveness
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failure to adapt to culture
failure to adapt to things such as school, work |
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getting away from the norm
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Deviancy
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when people violate normal rules and customs
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social discomfort
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6 Elements of Abnormality
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1) Suffering
2) Maladaptiveness 3) Deviancy 4) Violation of the Standards of Society 5) Social Discomfort 6) Irrationality and UNpredictability |