Abnormal Psychology Midterm Review

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Across
  1. 6. A model suggesting that a combination of predisposing factors/vulnerabilities and environmental stressors interact to increase the risk of developing a psychological disorder, mediated by protective factors.
  2. 8. Electroencephalogram (EEG) is a type of _________ assessment since it measures physiological changes in the nervous system as indicators of emotional or psychological responses.
  3. 10. The extent to which a psychological assessment or research study measures what it intends to measure, ensuring that the results are accurate and meaningful.
  4. 11. Disease characterized by steady physical and mental deterioration, delusions of grandeur and progressive paralysis. Often occurs in people who have had untreated syphilis for many years.
  5. 12. The controversial belief or practice of improving the genetic quality of the human population through selective breeding, forced sterilization or other measures.
  6. 14. Also called a framework or model, a __________ is a set of basic assumptions used to guide how we approach, investigate, and interpret a particular subject..
  7. 15. Assessment technique that uses technology to produce visualizations of brain structures or physically map brain functioning, e.g. CT scans, MRI, fMRI, PET scans.
  8. 18. The belief that physical factors, such as biological processes, contribute to the development of certain psychological disorders, in contrast to psychogenic explanations that emphasize emotional or psychological causes.
Down
  1. 1. The study of how drugs and medications affect mental processes and behavior, and how they can be used in the treatment of psychological disorders as a form of biomedical therapy.
  2. 2. The ____________ paradigm combines the mental processes of perception, recognition, judgement and reasoning with principles of learning to explain how abnormal behaviour is acquired through experience.
  3. 3. The process of discharging patients from long-term psychiatric institutions and providing community-based care and support. A major shift in mental health care that led to increased homelessness, isolation, and victimization of people with mental illness.
  4. 4. The proportion (usually a percentage) of a population who have a specific characteristic within a given time period; generally referring to how common a particular disorder is.
  5. 5. Type of assessment wherein the respondent answers a range of questions about their behaviour, beliefs and feelings to measure traits such as anxiety, hypomania, masculinity/femininity, emotionality, etc.
  6. 7. A learning process in psychology that involves associating a stimulus with a response, leading to behavioral changes, e.g., classical methods (Pavlov’s dogs) and operant methods (reinforcement and punishment).
  7. 9. The presence of two or more distinct health conditions in an individual at the same time, often complicating treatment and prognosis.
  8. 13. A classification or labeling of a patient’s symptoms that distinguishes one specific disorder from another, based thorough assessment and testing.
  9. 16. Tests that require the patient to interpret ambiguous stimuli or follow open-ended instructions that the clinician uses to reveal unconscious thoughts, characteristics, or conflicts thought to be at the root of abnormal functioning, e.g. Rorschach Inkblot, Thematic Apperception Test.
  10. 17. Supernatural, somatogenic, and psychogenic are three general theories of the __________ of mental illness, referring to factors that cause or are related to the origin/development of disorder.
  11. 19. Negative attitudes and stereotypes that are ascribed to groups considered different (e.g., people experiencing mental health problems), often resulting in discrimination.