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Pepperdine PSY 657 Exam 1 Question and Answers |100% Correct| Abnormal Psychology *Answer* Concerned with understanding causes and treatments Mental Disorder *Answer* A syndrome present that involves clinically significant disturbance in behavior, emotion regulation, or cognitive functioning. Believed to be a dysfunction in biological, psychological, or developmental processes. Psychopathology *Answer* Scientific study of mental disorder Comorbidity *Answer* Presence of 2 or more disor...

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Latest PSY 657 Test |Question and Answer| 3 dimensions of adult personality *Ans* neuroticism/negative emotionality, extroversion/positive emotionality, constraint/consciensciousness/agreeableness 5 dimensions of temperament *Ans* fearfulness, irritability, positive affect, activity level, and attentional persistent Aaron Beck *Ans* pioneer of cognitive therapy. Helped develop cognitive theories of depression, anxiety and personality disorders. Would go through cognition to impact the...

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Defining Psychological Disorders Mock Exam |100% Correct| Abnormal Psychology *Ans* application of psychological science to understanding and treating mental disorders ADHD *Ans* a developmental behavior disorder characterized by problems with focus, difficulty maintaining attention, and inability to concentrate, in which symptoms start before 13 years of age, most commonly diagnosed, 1/20 american children, 70% more common in males Agroaphobia *Ans* anxiety about being in places or s...

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657 Psychopathology Terms (Ch. 12) Autogynephilia *Ans* paraphilia characterized by sexual arousal in men at the thought or fantasy of being a woman Delayed ejaculation disorder *Ans* retarded ejaculation, or the inability to ejaculate following a normal sexual excitement phase Desire phase *Ans* first phase of the human sexual response, consisting of fantasies about sexual activity or a sense of desire to have sexual activity Erectile disorder *Ans* sexual dysfunction in which a male ...

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PSY 657 Practice Exam |2024 Fall exam| Anxiety*Ans* A general feeling of apprehension about possible future danger; Future oriented Neurosis*Ans* A maladaptive and self-defeating but reality testing remains intact. Mild illness not caused by organic disease involving symptoms of stress (depression, anxiety, obsessive behaviour, hypochondria) but not a radical loss of touch with reality, Neurotic behavior (Exasperated Behavior)*Ans* An automatic, unconscious effort to manage deep anxiety...

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PSY 657 Mid-term Exam: Psychopathology |100% Correct Question and Answers| Mental Disorder *Ans* The entire range of abnormal behavior patterns Psychopathology *Ans* the study of abnormal behavior Comorbidity *Ans* the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single individual Epidemiology *Ans* the study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population Prevalence *Ans* The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a populati...

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PSY 657 Final Exam (Chapters: 4, 10, 12, 16, 17) Comprehensive Q&A actuarial procedures *Ans* Methods whereby data about subjects are analyzed by objective procedures or formulas rather than by human judgments. Acturial Procedures *Ans* analysis of dreams *Ans* A psychoanalytic technique that attempts to shed light on unconscious material. Because dreams are regarded as heavily laden with unconscious wishes in symbolic form, the analysis of dreams is believed to provide important clu...

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