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Abnormal Psych T1
Midterm One
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| all can be traced to genes or malfunctioning parts of the brain, the endocrine system or communication problems within the brain | Biological Model |
| past experiences with others, especially in childhood, leading to conflict between key elements of the personality | Psycho-dynamic Model |
| in choices that we make: whether to behave authentically and take responsibility for our lives or not | Existentialism Model |
| In the failure to recieve unconditional positive regard from anyone, as yet, in our lives, leading to the incapacity to love and accept oneself | Humanistic Model |
| From families that are either too close or abusive, or from conditions like poverty or extreme stress | Socio-cultural Model |
| From habits we have developed: whatever brings desired results for us at the time, we tend to repeat, even if it ends up being harmful to us in the end | Behaviorist Model |
| Confrontation | being confronted by the therapist when you try to hide your problems |
| The Four D's of a mental illness | Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, Danger |
| we make sure that each time our test is given that respondents face pretty much the same environmental conditions and administration demeanor | Standardization |
| In theroy, if this group of students in the nursing program take the certification exam today and were to take it again tomorrow, their scores would increase | Reliability |
| The class was given a test to assess their mental health but it appeared to them on the surface that it had little to do with health at all | Face Validity |
| Dr. Glockstein set out to construct a simple personality test that can be taken in a fraction of the time it takes to take the MMPI, and the test has a high correlation with the MMPI scores | concurrent validity |
| Dr. Chock gave his patient a battery of tests in order to render his diagnosis and but also because he wanted to be able to get a sense of how his client would respond to therapy and what kinds of problems she faced outside of the therapist’s office | Predictive validity |
| Focuses on one area of functioning, such as feeling, thinking or social skills. | response inventories |
| Tests that measure things like heart rate, body temperature, blood pressure and galvanic skin response as indicators of anxiety. | psychophysiological tests |
| A person must copy simple designs and reproduce them from memory so that brain damage can be assessed. | neurophysiological tests (Bender Visual-motor) |
| This type of test relies on a person’s interpretation of ambiguous stimuli with the assumption that the person will reveal unconscious assumptions and things they might not discuss. | Projective Tests |
| This type of testing falls prey to observer overload, observer drift and observer bias. | clinical observations |
| Here’s a test with high reliability and validity that can reveal mental retardation but can also be used to reveal learning disability in particular areas. | intelligence tests |
| The person taking the test typically must agree or disagree with hundreds of statements that may or may not describe them. A profile is generated from their results. | Personality Tests |
| Electrical activity in the brain is charted (EEG) or pictures of the brain’s structure and function are taken (CT scan, PETscan, MRI) to see how a given person’s brain compares to a “normal” brain. | neurological tests/neuroimaging |
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