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Abnormal Psych Test 1
Basics of Abnormal Psych
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
09/16/2013

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Psych Disorder
Definition

.psychological disfunction

.personal distress

.atypical response

Term
Psychopathology Fields
Definition

.psychiatrists

.psychiatric social workers

.clinical/couseling psychologists

.psychiatric nurses

.marriage and family therapists

.mental health psychologists

Term

Types of 

Courses

Definition

.Chronic:long time

.Time-Limited: improve in short time

.Episodic: recover and have reocurrances 

Term

Types of

Onsets

 

Definition

Acute: sudden

Insidious: overtime

Term

Models of 

Behavior

Definition

.Supernatural: witches/demons

.Biological: Hippocrates

.Psychological: Dorothea Dix

.Psychoanalysis: Freud

.Behaviorism: Watson, Skinner, and Pavlov

 

Term
4 Humors
Definition

.blood

.black bile

.yellow bile

.phlegm

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Freuds Intrapsychic conflicts
Definition

.Superego: conscience

.Ego: logical

.id: illogical/impulses

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Pavlov
Definition

classical conditioning

-generalization

-discrimination

-extinction

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Watson
Definition

founder of behaviorism

"Little Albert"

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Skinner
Definition
operant conditioning
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Thorndike
Definition
Law of Effect
Term

Mary Cover Jones &

Joe Wolpe

Definition
relearn learned behavior
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Dimensions
Definition

Biological:genetic and nuero

Psychological: behavior and cognitive

Emotional: psychopathology

Development: psych disorders

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Biological Dimension
Definition

molecular: examines genes

behavioral: variability btw people

Term
Dimension Models
Definition

Multidimensional

One dimensional

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Body Chemicals
Definition

Glutamate: turns on neurons

GABA: regulate transmission of info

Serotonin: regulates behavior

Dopamine: aid in pleasure 

Norepinephrine: controls blood pressure and heart rate

Term
Left Hemisphere
Definition
verbal and school smarts
Term
Right Hemisphere
Definition
percieving
Term
Hindbrain
Definition
automatic activities
Term
Cerebellum
Definition
motor coordination
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Midbrain
Definition
arousal and tension
Term
Hypo/thalamus
Definition
behavior and emotion
Term
Limbic System
Definition

ability to learn, regulate emotions, sex, hunger, thirst

anygdala, septum, hippocampus, and cingulate gyrus are all included in the limbic system.

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Forebrain
Definition
control motor activity
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Cerebral cortex
Definition
plan, reason and create
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Temporal Lobe
Definition
sights sounds and long term memory
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Parietal Lobe
Definition
sensation
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occipital lobe
Definition
various inputs
Term
Frontal Lobe
Definition
planning of movements, short term memory
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Prefrontal Cortex
Definition
thinking, reasoning, planning, long term memory
Term
Carl Rogers
Definition
Humanistic Theory
Term
Abraham Maslow
Definition
Heirarchy of Needs
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Equifinality
Definition
several behaviors can have the same outcome
Term
Multifinality
Definition
one behavior can have several outcome
Term
Reliability
Definition
consistent
Term
Validity
Definition
measures what it's suppose to
Term
Standardization
Definition
standards to make sure tests are consistent
Term
Mental Exams
Definition

1.Apperance and behavior

2. Thought process

3. Mood and affect

4. Intellectual functioning

5. Awareness of surrounding (sensorium)

Term
Observation Assessment
Definition

.Antecedents

.Behavior

.Consequences

Term
Projective Tests
Definition

show images to people with the idea that they will project their own personality and unconscious fears that relate to other things.

.Rorschach inkblot test

.Thematic Apperception Test

.sentence- completeltion method

Term
Rorschach Inkblot Test
Definition
80 years ago, created by Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach
Term
Thematic Apperception Test
Definition

1935, Christina Morgan and Henry Murray @ Harvard.

31 cards, 30 w/ pics 1 blank

ask person to tell dramatic story about the picture on the card. 

Term
MMPI/MMPI-2
Definition

Starke Hathaway and J. Charnley McKinley.

Used empirical keying to identify items.

Empirical scale: pool of items that were giving to some normal peole and some crazy people.

They idntified 1000 items and took 8 separate groups from psych wards. 724 visitors were considered the "normal" population group. 

Contained 566 questions based off 10 clinical scales and 3 validity scales.

MMPI-2=1989, 2400 diverse men and women

MMPI- 2RF= 2008, 338 items, 51 scales-no clinical scales, no longer uses empirical keying.

MMPI-adolsecent=1992 ages 14-18, 478 items

 

Term
IQ
Definition

Standford-Binet test

mental age/actual age X 100=IQ

Term
Images of Brain Function
Definition

PET scan- finds hot spots where the brain is active vs not active.

SPECT scan- same as PET but less effective

MRI

EEG- measures electircal activity and brain waves

Term
Emil Kraepelin
Definition
First to classify pysch disorders from a biological point of view
Term
DSM
Definition

DSM 3- Robert Spitzer-1980, revised 1987

DSM 4- 1994 revised 2000

DSM 5 -2013

 

Term
Dependent Variable
Definition
aspects you want to measure
Term
Independent Variable
Definition
influences on behavior
Term
Internal Validity
Definition
extent to which you can confident that the independent variable is causing the dependent variable to change
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External Validity
Definition
how well the results relate to things outside your study, how your data describes similar individuals who were not in the study.
Term
Confound
Definition
any factors occurring in a study that makes the results uninterpretable because a variable other than the independent variable may also affect the dependent variable.
Term
Patient Uniformity Myth
Definition

Kiesler (1966) 

tendency to label all participants as one group.

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