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PSY Pepperdine EXAM 1 Questions and Answers
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PSY Pepperdine EXAM 1Questions and Answers
,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.
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