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TEST 1 REVIEW

THE EXAM COVERS CHAPTERS 1-5
The review for the exam is below
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I have included some sample questions
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I have include them for
your benefit, to decrease your anxiety and help you do better
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Review Test 1
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Allows us to study the different disorders that we classify and to learn
what causes them and how they may be best treated
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Taijin kyofusho in japan
and ataque de nervios (pg
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Co-morbidity, trephining
- Comorbidity: the presence of two or more disorders in the same person
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Classical theory of humors
- The four elements earth, air, fire, and water had attributes of hear, cold, moistness, and
dryness
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(pg 30)
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(pg 40)
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Cannot develop unless one has contracted syphilis
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(pg 55)
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Freud’s theory
- Id, ego, superego
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They discharge or soothe anxiety
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Individual learns how to reach a desired goal
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Reinforcement is the delivery of a reward or pleasant stimulus, or to the
removal of or escape from an aversive stimulus
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If sufficiently motivated for that outcome, the person will
make the response that he or she has learned produces the outcome)
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Interpersonal psychoanalysis
- The unfortunate tendencies we have developed while dealing with our interpersonal
environments
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Existentialism
- The humanistic view on the uniqueness of each individual, the quest for values and
meaning, and the existence of freedom for self direction and self fulfillment
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Attribution
- Process of assigning causes to things that happen
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Clinical Observation
- Direct observation of a persons behavior (pg 109)
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MMPI and Rorschach
- MMPI is the prototype and the standard of this class of instruments
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The Rorschach is a inkblot test where the patient will explain what they
see in the inkblot picture
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Ethical concerns in Testing

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- Institutionalization, neglect and abuse at home, separation from parents
Fear and fight or flight response
- Notes from chapter 6
Selye
- A Canadian physician that used the word stress to describe the difficulties and strains
experienced by living organisms as they struggle to cope with and adapt to changing
environmental conditions
Immune function and emotion
Chronic stress and the immune system
Treatment of stress disorder
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(pg 140)
Adjustment disorders
- A psychological response to a common stressor that results in clinically significant behavioral
or emotional symptoms (pg 145)
Acute stress disorder
-a diagnostic category that an be used when symptoms develop shortly after experiencing a
traumatic event and lasted for at least two days (pg 148)
The SAM and the HPA roles in the Stress response
- The SAM mobilizes resources and prepares for the fight or flight response
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What makes defining abnormality difficult?
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A classification system allows information to be organized
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Then professionals won't need to look at as much information about a person
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Then professionals can make assumptions about people based on their diagnosis
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The diagnosis then often has an effect on peoples' behaviors
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A disorder seen in all cultures
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A disorder that is a product of cultural stressors
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___________ was a common practice among many cultures in antiquity to cure mental illness
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blood letting
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Imagine that it is 1885
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" He is lacking in
energy and shows low mood
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a morally deficient individual
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as suffering from neurasthenia
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as suffering from hysteria
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as untreatable because the condition was biological
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The insanity associated with general paresis (syphilis)
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has no known physical cause
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is caused by excessive alcohol consumption
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is seen only in the aging who have compromised health
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results from an infection of the brain
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Kraepelin is credited with
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Object relations

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Interpersonal theory
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That we are free to choose our destiny and become the person we wish to be is more likely the idea
of this school of thought:
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cognitive psychology
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modern psychoanalysis

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attribution
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internal reinforcement
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schema therapy
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cognition
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If a Hispanic patient takes the MMPI in English and Spanish versions
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Validity and reliability
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Situational variables
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The ambiguous stimuli it employs are pictures of people interacting in an unclear
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A considerable amount of training is required to administer and score it accurately
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It assesses the kind of specific behavioral deficits that most mental health facilities


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learning problems and psychopathology
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narcissistic behaviors
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Neurotic behavior
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is what we now refer to as "hysteria
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is maladaptive but means that a person is not out of touch with reality
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Fear is a basic emotion that involves
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Selye
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behavior, emotion
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resilience, resistance
Healthy psychological and physical functioning after a potentially traumatic event is called:
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resilience
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adaptation



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