Diagnosis and Psychopathology Midterm (Well-enlightened)

Criteria to determine presence of psychopathology? correct answers 1. Psychological dysfunction with cognitive processes and/or behavior and/or emotion 2. Distress and/or functional impairment in social and/or vocational and/or education and/or daily life 3. Culturally Unexpected When was the "birth date" of psychology? correct answers 1886 Who was Wilhelm Wundt correct answers German, First psychological lab, one of the first to identify the limits of short-term memory Who was thought of as the first Clinical Psychologist? correct answers Lightner Witmer Who developed the first widely used intelligence test correct answers Binet and Simon What initiated the development of the first DSM? correct answers Assessment was inconsistent. Agreement for diagnosis was at approximately 20%. When did Beck publish his study on diagnostic agreement? What did he find? correct answers 1962 - After the first DSM was published, level of agreement increased to 32%-42%. When was psychology recognized for treatment with psychotherapy? correct answers During and after WWII DSM III correct answers established in 1980, heavy dose of empiricism in DSM concrete, discrete populations, use of field trials to check the check lists. DSM III-R correct answers 1987, new symptom checklists, more etiology DSM IV correct answers 1994 What are some problems with the DSM-5? correct answers 1. The shift from multiracial diagnosis (Axis I and Axis II), 2. Psychological disorder may be less categorical and more dimensional, people below the threshold are suffering maybe just as much as people above the threshold, 3.Generalizability-field trials done mainly in the USA which may or may not apply to various cultures, 4. Controversy with proposed diagnostic categories for the future 5. Rampant comorbidity- hard to do research on an individual diagnostic criteria-adds to unreliability, 6. symptom clusters seem to overlap 7. having a DSM in the first place creates a code for stigmatizing people Defining Features of Psychological Disorders correct answers 1. discontrol-lack of self-control, inhibition (discontrol is a key element of substance use disorders, ADHD, personality disorders 2. impairment-- What is clinically significant in regards to impairment? ex: Autism disorder used