Abnormal Psychology Chapter 1

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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.

-person has the disorder, you try and go back and try to understand origin of disease

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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