Pepperdine PSY 657 Exam 1 Question
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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 disorders in the same person.
Acute *Answer* Short in duration
Chronic *Answer* Long in duration
Mild, Moderate, Severe *Answer* Relates to size & severity of a disorder
Episodic *Answer* A disorder that tends to abate and recur.
Recurrent *Answer* Disorder pattern that comes and goes.
,Epidemiology *Answer* Deals with the incidence, distribution, and possible control of
diseases and other factors relating to health.
Prevalence *Answer* The fact or condition of being prevalent; commonness.
Lifetime Prevalence *Answer* Number of people who have had a particular disorder at any
time in their lives (even if they are now recovered).
Incidence *Answer* Number of new cases that occur over a given period of time (typically 1
year).
Correlation Study *Answer* involves studying the world as it is. Does not involve any
manipulation of variables.
Experimental Study *Answer* involves the manipulation of a given factor or variable with
everything else held constant.
Case Study *Answer* An in-depth examination of an individual or family that draws from a
number of data sources, including interviews and psychological testing.
, Validity - Internal *Answer* The extent to which a study is methodologically sound, free of
confounds, or other sources of error, and able to be used to draw valid conclusions.
Validity - External *Answer* The extent to which we can generalize our findings beyond the
study itself.
Hippocrates *Answer* Father of modern medicine; He denied that deities and demons
intervened in the development of illnesses and instead insisted that mental disorders had natural
causes and appropriate treatments.
Brain was the central organ of intellectual activity.
Mental disorders were due to brain pathology.
Emphasized the importance of heredity and predisposition and injuries to the head could cause
sensory and motor disorders.
Classified all mental disorders into three general categories—mania, melancholia, and phrenitis.
Plato *Answer* Viewed psychological phenomena as responses of the whole organism,
reflecting its internal state and natural appetites.
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