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Exam #1 Ab Pysc

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Minnesota Multiphasic personality inventory
empirically derived and objective personality test
Classification schemes for mental disorders
may lead to self-fulfilling prophecies
Developmental factors should be reflected in diagnostic systems
patterns of symptoms and behaviors may vary across the life span
Clinical assessments made for the purpose of diagnosis typically include:
a mental status exam by a collaboring psychiatrist
Desmond
thematic apperception test
Having biological predisposition means
person has increased vulnerability to developing a disorder
Abnormal does not allow
positive deviations
Theoretical orientation of a person conducting a psychological assessment affects the
range and scope of the assessment
Juan's thoroughness made him late to his first class:
dysfunctional even if not distressful
A high school student is able to solve problems far beyond the capacity of an average student his age. This student's abilities may be considered ____, but it is _____:
deviant; desirable abnormality
Tedtalk; Ruby Wax; mental illness arisies out of "constant state of alarm" due to an overabundance of adrenaline and
cortisol (released during flight or fight)
Pavlov's experiment with dogs, classical condition
the CS elicited the CR
In the self-referent approcach to interpreting a score, a person's score today
compared with an earlier score on the same test
Jake is diagnosed with depression and believes that no one will like him as a result of the diagnosis. Which of the following likely applies to this description
stigma
DSM
primary classification system used in the US a by the American Psych Assocation
Referral questions aid in the determination of
goals of assessment and the psychological tests or measurements to be administered.
Personality theory that emphasizes the healthy growth and self-realization:
humanistic
Major purpose of diagnosis
aid communication among researchers and clinicians
Dorothea Dix
Massachusetts reformer who sought to improve the treatment of people with psych disorders in the 1800s
Binet's term "mental age":
chronological age that most typically corresponds to a given level of intelligence test performance
Neuropsychological tests are inappropriate for
testing temperament (b/c temperament is not a brain function)
Aaron Beck's model of depression, the cognitive triad
three types of negative thoughts
Child is high distracted in classroom, what happens just before the distraction, how the child behaves during, what happens immediately after, assessing situational influences and behavior
functional
French govt hired binet to develop an intelligence test that would
reduce the need to rely on teachers' biased judgments of students' learning potential
Etiology
how a disorder begins/cause
Which of the folliwng is an example of psychological disorders being caused by biological factors
all of the above
Current IQ scores mean
100;15 (mean, standard deviation)
Reliability
a test consistently produces the same score for the same person
Coping with anxiety by retreating to behavior patterns characteristic of an earlier, more infantile stage of development is
regression
William Tuke; patients live, work, and relax in a compassionate and religious environment
foundation for moral treatment
A test has a high degree of validity if it is
measures or predicts what it is supposed to measure or predict
Biological scarring
the brain may change as a result of the disorder
Dr Johnson has been trained in Exner's comprehensive system for scoring and interpreting the Roschaach Inkblot test, he does not use the test as a part of his clinical test battery. Having reviewed the literature, Dr. Johnson found that
the test has questionable test reliability, its normative data are outdate, and it as limited validity
Morgan obtains a score on a screening device for depression, which indicates the presence of significant depression. Morgan's psychologist is most likely to:
recommend further evaluation
Neurons release neurotransmitters into synapses
these neurotransmitters: land o n the receptor site of the next neuron causing it to fire
Trephination
certain portion of skill were cut away
During the college's health fair, the counseling center offers confidential testing to evaluate a student's risk for substance abuse
screening
The ID
the source of basic drives of psychic energy (immediate gratification
IQ was originally determined by
taking the child's mental age and dividing it by its chronological age
Standard Deviation is
the distance between an obtained score and the average score of the normative group
In ancient Greece, hysteria
a wandering uterus
Rorschach Inkblot is an example of
projection (b/c it is open to interpretation)
Gender roles directly affect the
expression of abnormal behavior
Deviance
behaving differently
Men are more likely than women to suffer form
alcohol and drug abuse
A bell-shaped pattern that characterizes the distribution of a large sample of intelligence test scores is a graphic representation of
normal curve
Jose is asked to complete an assessment measure that focuses on depression; "always, frequency, sometimes, never
self-report measure
Whereas the behavioral approach focuses on
external events, the cognitive model target: mental processes in explaining behavior
Person first language
individual with schiz
Administering psycholigal tests to someone from another country may be biased b/c
all of these
the shared behavioral patterns and lifestyles that differentiate one group of the people form another
culture
Diathesis-stress model
biological and environmental factors interact to determine the likelihood that a person will exhibit abnormal behavior
Model between biological, psychological, and social factors
biopsychological model
Medieval Europe thought mental illness was thought to be caused by
evil or demonic spirits
Freud indicated that defense mechanism
reduce anxiety by unconsciously distorting reality (know bc answers are mixed up)
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