FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT C1ABNORMAL

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT C1ABNORMAL

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Question 1: Study of psychological disorders over the entire age range.

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life-span developmental psychopathology Question 2: In psychoanalysis, the unconscious psychical entity present at birth representing basic drives.

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id Question 3: Enduring tendency to behave in particular predisposed ways across situations.

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personality trait Question 4: This led individuals in the Middle Ages to conclude that their beliefs about possession were correct.

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Ages was mass hysteria (also known as Saint Vitus' Dance or Tarantism), which is characterized by outbreaks of strange behavior on a grand scale.

Question 5: Explanation of psychological dysfunction that primarily emphasizes brain disorder or illness as the cause.

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biological model Question 6: In an attempt to rid the body of the excessive humors thought to be causing psychological disorders, physicians throughout history have used treatments such as:

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bloodletting. (humoral theory & Humors) Question 7: Psychoanalytic therapy method in which dream contents are examined as symbolic of id impulses and intrapsychic conflicts.

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dream analysis Question 8: The psychological perspective on abnormal behavior emphasizes that behavioral

disturbances are cause by:

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maladaptive ways of thinking, feeling, or behaving Question 9: Edward L. Thorndike''s principle that behaviors are strengthened or weakened by the environmental events that follow them.

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law of effect Question 10: Learned reaction, similar to the unconditioned response, elicited by a conditioned stimulus following classical conditioning.

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conditioned response (CR) Question 11: A researcher is interested in studying age-related changes in violent behavior. The researcher observes the behavior of a group 6yrs and compares it to the behavior of a group of 9yrs. What type of research design is this researcher utilizing?

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Cross-sectional design

Question 12: Diencephalon (forebrain)

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Thalamus = collects & filter sensory informationHypothalamus = eating, drinking, sex, circadian rhythms Question 13: Psychosocial approach in the 19th century that involved treating patients as normally as possible in normal environments.

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moral therapy Question 14: The biological and psychological models or theories of abnormality derived

originally from the ancient Greek concept in which the:

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mind was considered separate from the body.

Question 15: Spinal cord

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• conducts nerve impulses- reflexes

Question 16: Explanation of human behavior, including dysfunction, based on principles of learning and adaptation derived from experimental psychology.

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behavioral model

Question 17: Important neurotransmittersGABA

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anxiety Question 18: Explanation of human behavior and its dysfunction that emphasizes the influence of the social environment and early experience.

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psychological model Question 19: As defined in the DSM-IV-TR, an accepted definition of abnormal behavior is

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is behavioral, emotional, or cognitive dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with personal distress or substantial impairment in functioning.

Question 20: Psychological dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functioning that is not a typical or culturally expected response.

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psychological disorder Question 21: Symptoms associated with advanced syphilis are similar to symptoms associated with schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders (syphilis was discovered to be a cause of general paresis (disorder of both behavioral and cognitive symptoms)).

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scientists discovered that syphilis could be cured by penicillin, which led mental health professionals to believe that similar cures could be discovered psychological disorders.

Question 22: Clinical Description of Abnormal Behavior

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presenting problem PrevalenceIncidenceCourseAcute onset Important associated features Question 23: Which mental health professional is most likely to be concerned with the link between the person who displays maladaptive behavior and his or her current home environment?

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Psychiatric social worker

Question 24: In psychoanalysis, the struggles among the id, ego, and superego.

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intrapsychic conflicts Question 25: In psychoanalysis, stopping or concentrating at a psychosexual stage because of a lack of appropriate gratification at that stage.

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fixation

Question 26: Cerebrum/cortex is

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-higher functions- more developed in humans