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| What is the criteria that defines abnormality and what do they mean? |
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1. Causes person distress
2. Handicaps person in some fashion (dysfunction, impairment)
3. Not normal behavior |
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| What phrase describes the causes of abnormal behavior? |
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"Biopsychosocial"
"sociocultural" being the full meaning of the "-social" suffix |
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| Name three steps of scientific method... |
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1. Observation
2. Hypothesis
3. Elimination of other possible explanations |
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| Research methods is Abnormal Psychology |
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1. Scientific
2. Experimental
3. Correlational (quasi-experimental)
4. Survey (quasi-experimental)
5. Case Study (quasi-experimental)
6. Single-subject design |
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| Fill-in: While psychological research methods are crucial to studying abnormal psychology, *BLANK* also factor into different disorders. |
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Experimental Method, def.
Indep. variable, def.
Dep. variable, def. |
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involves altering or changing the conditions to which participants are exposed and observing the effects of this manipulation on the behaviors of the participants- indep. variable: manipulated by experimenter- Dep. variable: result of manipulation.
"The simplest experimental design has two groups: an experimental group and a control group." |
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| sample represents diverseness of entire population it is taken from |
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| A scientist measured the levels of depression and self-esteem in people to find out if the scores are correlated- in other words, whether they relate to each other or not. This an example of the *BLANK* method of research. |
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An inherited disorder is expected to have the highest *BLANK* between:
a. siblings of different birth orders
b. monozygotic, or identical, twins
c. dizygotic, or fraternal, twins |
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| What is the difference between adoption study and crossfostering study? |
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adoption: biological parents have disorder
Crossfostering: adoptive parents have disorder |
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| Stigma impacts self-perception |
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| multiple baseline approach, def. |
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| methods involves observing different dependent variables in the same person over course of treatment |
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| label that causes certain people to be regarded as different, defective and set apart from mainstream members of society. |
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