Psyc 435 final exam with correct answers
What is abnormal psychology concerned with? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔understanding the nature, causes and treatment of mental disorders
What is family aggregation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔whether a disorder
runs in families
7 indicators of abnormailty - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. subjective distress
2. maladaptiveness
3. statistical delivery
4. violation of the standards of society
5. social discomfort
6. irrationality and unpredictability
7. dangerousness
DSM definition of a mental disorder - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A syndrome
that is present in an individual and that involves clinically significant
disturbance in behaviour, emotional regulation or cognitive functioning
Advantages of classification - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Provides us with
nomenclature and enable us to structure information in a more helpful
manner
,Disadvantages of classification - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Use of shorthand
leads to a loss of information, there can be some stigma associated with a
having a psychiatric diagnosis, and stereotyping
What is epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the study of the distribution
of diseases, disorders or health related behaviours in a given population
Difference between prevalence and incidence - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔prevalence refers to the number of active cases in a population, incidence
refers to the number of new cases that occur over a given period of time
What is external validity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The extent to which we
can generalize results of a study
What is internal validity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The degree of confidence
we can have in the results of a particular study
What is a correlation coefficient? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the strength of a
correlation
What is statistical significance? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔probability that
results are due to chance
What is a meta analysis? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Statistical approach
which calculates and then combines the effect sizes from studies
,what is a longitudinal design? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a study that follows
people over time and tries to identify factors that predate the onset of a
disorder
what is an experimental research approach? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A
study where researchers control all factors except one
What is an ABAB design? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A design that starts with
controlled conditions, introduces treatment, removes the treatment, and then
reintroduces the treatment. Recommended form of practice. Has more
comparisons which allows for greater confidence in findings.
3 general categories of mental disorders according to hippocrates - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔1. mania
2. melancholia
3. phrenitis (brain fever)
hippocrates belief on mental disorders - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Denied that
demons intervened, instead insisted that mental disorders had natural causes.
Believed that mental disorders were due to brain pathology.
Mahers four element theory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Four elements:
1. blood (sanguis)
2. phlem
3. bile (choler)
4. black bile (melancholia)
, These fluids combined in different proportions in different individuals, and
determines a person's temperament
plato's opinion on mental illness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Responses of the
whole organism, reflecting its internal state. Such persons were not responsible
for their acts and should not receive normal punishment.
aristotle's opinion on mental illness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔agreed with
aristotles theory of the bile, and thought very hot bile generated amorous
desires, verbal fluency, and suicidal impulses
what country was the earliest civilization to attend to mental disorders -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔china, but then regressed to a belief in supernatural
forces as causal agents
what is mass madness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the widespread occurrence
of group behaviour disorders that were apparently cases of hysteria
what is tarantism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔groups of people would
suddenly start to jump, dance, and go into convulsions
What is lycanthropy? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A condition in which people
believe themselves to be possessed by wolves
What is abnormal psychology concerned with? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔understanding the nature, causes and treatment of mental disorders
What is family aggregation - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔whether a disorder
runs in families
7 indicators of abnormailty - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔1. subjective distress
2. maladaptiveness
3. statistical delivery
4. violation of the standards of society
5. social discomfort
6. irrationality and unpredictability
7. dangerousness
DSM definition of a mental disorder - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A syndrome
that is present in an individual and that involves clinically significant
disturbance in behaviour, emotional regulation or cognitive functioning
Advantages of classification - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Provides us with
nomenclature and enable us to structure information in a more helpful
manner
,Disadvantages of classification - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Use of shorthand
leads to a loss of information, there can be some stigma associated with a
having a psychiatric diagnosis, and stereotyping
What is epidemiology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the study of the distribution
of diseases, disorders or health related behaviours in a given population
Difference between prevalence and incidence - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔prevalence refers to the number of active cases in a population, incidence
refers to the number of new cases that occur over a given period of time
What is external validity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The extent to which we
can generalize results of a study
What is internal validity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔The degree of confidence
we can have in the results of a particular study
What is a correlation coefficient? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the strength of a
correlation
What is statistical significance? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔probability that
results are due to chance
What is a meta analysis? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Statistical approach
which calculates and then combines the effect sizes from studies
,what is a longitudinal design? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔a study that follows
people over time and tries to identify factors that predate the onset of a
disorder
what is an experimental research approach? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A
study where researchers control all factors except one
What is an ABAB design? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A design that starts with
controlled conditions, introduces treatment, removes the treatment, and then
reintroduces the treatment. Recommended form of practice. Has more
comparisons which allows for greater confidence in findings.
3 general categories of mental disorders according to hippocrates - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔1. mania
2. melancholia
3. phrenitis (brain fever)
hippocrates belief on mental disorders - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Denied that
demons intervened, instead insisted that mental disorders had natural causes.
Believed that mental disorders were due to brain pathology.
Mahers four element theory - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Four elements:
1. blood (sanguis)
2. phlem
3. bile (choler)
4. black bile (melancholia)
, These fluids combined in different proportions in different individuals, and
determines a person's temperament
plato's opinion on mental illness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Responses of the
whole organism, reflecting its internal state. Such persons were not responsible
for their acts and should not receive normal punishment.
aristotle's opinion on mental illness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔agreed with
aristotles theory of the bile, and thought very hot bile generated amorous
desires, verbal fluency, and suicidal impulses
what country was the earliest civilization to attend to mental disorders -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔china, but then regressed to a belief in supernatural
forces as causal agents
what is mass madness - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔the widespread occurrence
of group behaviour disorders that were apparently cases of hysteria
what is tarantism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔groups of people would
suddenly start to jump, dance, and go into convulsions
What is lycanthropy? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔A condition in which people
believe themselves to be possessed by wolves
