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What percent of people will be diagnosed with a psychological disorder in any given year?
24-26%
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What did "hysteria" mean in Charcot's sense?
Paralysis
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Trephination occurred due to what belief?
Evil Spirits
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What prompted the Community mental health movement?
Development of drugs to help schizophrenics
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What was Kraepelin's term for schizoprehnic-like symptoms
Dementia Praecox
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In what country did the reform movement for treating mental illness begin?
France
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The American Psychiatric Association stopped classifying homosexuality as a mental illness in what year?
1973
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What was the earliest psychological model of abnormal behavior?
Freud's Psycho Dynamic Theory
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According to Hippocrates, an abundance of blood in the body could cause…
Happiness/Content
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Define: Prevalence
Overall # of cases of a disorder existing in the population during a given period of time
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Define: Incidence
# of NEW cases of a disorder that occurs within a specific period of time
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Define: Epidemiology
- Study of health-event, health-characteristic, or health-determinant patterns in a society
- Work areas include outbreak investigation, disease surveillance and screening (medicine), biomonitoring, and comparisons of treatment effects such as in clinical trials.
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Define: Proband
The first affected family member who seeks medical attention for a genetic disorder.
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Define: Internal Validity
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Define: External Validity
Results can be generalized to other settings and conditions
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Define: Concordance Rate
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Define: Placebo
An inert medication treatment that is intended to control for expectancy effects
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Define: Single-blind
Information that could introduce bias or otherwise skew the result is withheld from the participants, but the experimenter will be in full possession of the facts.
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Define: Double-blind
Neither the individuals nor the researchers know who belongs to the control group and the experimental group.
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Define: Wait-list Control Group
A group that is assigned to a waiting list to receive an intervention after the active treatment group does.
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Define: Attention-placebo control group
A group of persons that serves as a baseline for comparison for assessment of the effects of a particular intervention. While persons in the treatment group receive the experimental treatment being studied, the attention placebo control group receives a treatment that mimics the amount of time and attention received by the treatment group but is thought not to have a specific effect upon the subjects.
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The strongest evidence supporting a genetic role in a psychological disorder would come from what type of twins?
Monozygotic; Apart
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In a single-case ABAB design, what do the A and B refer to?
- A = Baseline
- B = Treatment
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What ethical standards are used in research on abnormal behavior?
- Informed consent
- Confidentiality
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What historical figure is considered to be the father of American psychiatry?
Benjamin Rush
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Anecdote About Blind Rat
Descriptions of a behavior may be influenced by our expectations
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