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| 7336393300 | Abnormality | Criteria -statistically unusual -socially unacceptable -dysfunctional -subjective distress -maladaptiveness -dangerousness -irrationally and unpredictability none are a sufficient condition or a necessary condition | 0 | |
| 7336413092 | Statistically unusual behavior | occurs infrequently -statistically rare and undesirable = abnormal -statistically rare and desirable not abnormal | 1 | |
| 7614271832 | subjective distress | if people suffer or experience psychological pain (inclined to consider abnormality) | 2 | |
| 7336469429 | socially unacceptable behavior | blocks their goals: harm, failure | 3 | |
| 7336481513 | Wakefield's Harmful Dysfunction Concept | -Condition results from dysfunction of a mental of physical function -Condition causes harm to the person | 4 | |
| 7339138692 | Personal distressing behavior | behavior or feelings that are uncomfortable/upsetting to person experiencing them | 5 | |
| 7339165044 | Dichotomy | two categories: yes or no | 6 | |
| 7339175984 | Dimensional | bell curve | 7 | |
| 7339196028 | Bimodal distribution | two humps: categorical | 8 | |
| 7613971436 | Abnormal psychology | concerned with understanding the nature, causes, and treatment of mental disorders | 9 | |
| 7614167775 | Family aggregation | whether a disorder runs in families | 10 | |
| 7614352017 | Maladaptive | behavior that interferes with our well-being and with our ability to enjoy our work and our relationships (for and towards society) | 11 | |
| 7614385483 | dangerousness | when someone who is a danger to him/herself or to another person. | 12 | |
| 7615076509 | Culture and abnormality | Abnormality involves social judgments and are based on values and expectations of society at large . Culture plays a role in determining what is/not abnormal -changes over time (homosexuality) -interpretation and expression vary -some only seen in certain cultures | 13 | |
| 7615168183 | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) | provides all the info. necessary to diagnose mental disorders -specific diagnostic criteria for each disorder -type and number of symptoms | 14 | |
| 7615214699 | DSM-5 on metal disorder | a syndrome that is present in an individual and that involves clinically significant disturbance in behavior, emotion regulation, or cognitive functioning | 15 | |
| 7615260646 | Advantages of classifications | -common nomenclature, facilitates communications between professional boundaries -facilitates research -structure information | 16 | |
| 7615361737 | Disadvantages of classification | -loss of info. (knowing background than just simply a diagnosis) -stigma -stereotyping -labeling | 17 | |
| 7615434517 | stereotypes | are automatic beliefs concerning other people that we unavoidably learn as a results of growing up in a particular culture | 18 | |
| 7615555407 | epidemiology | study go the distribution of diseases, disorders, or health-related behaviors in a given population | 19 | |
| 7618137610 | prevalence | referes to the number of active cases in a population during any given period of time -percentages | 20 | |
| 7618147312 | point prevalence | refers to the estimate proportion of actual, active cases of a disorder in a given population at a given point in time | 21 | |
| 7618161853 | 1-year prevalence | anyone who experienced a disorder any point in time throughout the entire year | 22 | |
| 7618176707 | lifetime prevalence | estimate of the number of people who have had a particular disorder at any time in their lives (even if now recovered) | 23 | |
| 7618197318 | incidence | refers to the number of new cases that occur over a given period of time (typically 1 year) | 24 | |
| 7618827038 | acute | short in duration | 25 | |
| 7618828775 | chronic | long in duration | 26 | |
| 7618835463 | etiology | causes disorders | 27 | |
| 7618937192 | case study | -subject to bias -low generalizability -provide limited support for a particular theory or challenge | 28 | |
| 7618971837 | self-report data | -filling out questionnaires -interviews but, -people may not be very good reporters of their own subjective states or experiences | 29 | |
| 7619034618 | direct observation | trained observers watch and recored the behaviors of the participants | 30 | |
| 7619067565 | FMRI | brain-imaging, blood flow to various parts of the brain, | 31 | |
| 7619164834 | hypothesis | an effort to explain, predict, or explore something by testing | 32 | |
| 7619292403 | external validity | the extent to which we can generalize our findings beyond the study itself | 33 | |
| 7619315495 | internal validity | reflects how confident we can be in results of a particular -free of confounds -being able to draw valid conclusions | 34 | |
| 7619382165 | comparison group | control group | 35 | |
| 7619386103 | criterion group | group of interest | 36 | |
| 7619458178 | correlational research design | studying the world as it is -no manipulation of variables -selects certain groups of interest, compare groups on diff. measures | 37 | |
| 7619507150 | correlation coefficient (r) | runs from 0 to 1 -1 stronger correlation between the two variables - +, - sign indicates the direction association between the variables | 38 | |
| 7619518878 | statistical significance | p<.05 meaning that the probability that the correlation would occur purely by chance is less than 5 percent | 39 | |
| 7619528463 | Effect size | reflects the size of the association between two variables indep. of the sample size -0= means there is no association between the variables | 40 | |
| 7619562886 | retrospective research | involves looking back in time, seeing what factors that might have been associated with what went wrong later | 41 | |
| 7619603240 | prospective research strategy | involves looking ahead in time, trying to prevent something from happening | 42 | |
| 7619619942 | single-case research designs | same individual is studied over time | 43 | |
| 7619627108 | ABAB design | Phases of intervention -collect data -introduce treatment -withdrawal of treatment -reinstate treatment | 44 | |
| 7619652250 | analogue studies | findings from animal studies can be generalized to humans. We study not the true item of interest but an approximation to it | 45 |
