Crossword & Word Search Ch. 1 – Flashcards
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While either the experiments or participants in a research study can be kept unaware of who is in the control group and who is in the experimental group, it is best that they both be kept unaware. This is called a
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Double Blind design
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In experimental research, the variable that is manipulated by the researcher is referred to as the
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Independent variable
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Jordan is interested in answering questions related to the appearance of symptoms in individuals with schizophrenia. She follows a very specific process of posing questions, specs on the answers, gathering data, and evaluating different conclusions. This formal process is called the
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Scientific method
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During the Renaissance, several hospitals and monasteries were converted into facilities where the primary purpose was to care for people with mental illnesses. The name of such an institution is
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Asylum
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Psychologist Martin Seligman has produced depression-like symptoms in lab participants-both animals and humans- by repeatedly exposing them to negative events. This is an example of an
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Analogue study
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When one research participant is studied before and after some sort of experimental manipulation of an independent variable, this is called a
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Single-subject experimental design
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Marquisha wants to know how many new cases of rubella have occurred during the past six months. Her desire to study the number of cases appearing in a given time period is referred to as the study of
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Incidence
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A procedure designed to help change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior. Also called therapy.
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Treatment
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A society's stated and unstated rules for proper conduct
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Norms
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Classification of medications that primarily affect the brain and reduce various symptoms of mental dysfunction
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Psychotrophic
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The discharge of large numbers of patients from long-term institutional care so that they might be treated in community programs
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Deinstitutionalized
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A research procedure in which a variable is manipulated and the effect of the manipulation is observed
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Experiment
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A subfield of psychology that focuses on the study and enhancement of feelings, traits, and abilities
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Positive
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The perspective that abnormal psychological functioning has physical causes
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Psychogenic
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A detailed account of a person's life and psychological problems
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Case study
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A 19th-century approach to treating people with mental dysfunction that emphasized guidance and humane and respectful treatment
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Moral Treatment
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A general understanding of the nature, causes, and treatments of abnormal psychological functioning in the form of laws or principles
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Nomothetic Understanding
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A type of institution that first became popular in the 16th century to provide care for persons with mental disorders. Most became virtual prisons.
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Asylum
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Person who deviates from conventional norms in odd, irregular, or even bizarre ways, but is not displaying a psychological disorder
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Eccentric
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The perspective that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological
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Psychogenic perspective
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The degree to which events or characteristics vary along with each other
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Correlation
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An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior
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Trephination
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The practice in early societies of treating abnormality by coaxing evil spirits to leave a person's body
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Exorcism
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A sham treatment that the subject in an experiment believes to be genuine
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Placebo therapy
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In an experiment, a variable other than the independent variable that may also be acting on the dependent variable
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Control Group
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A people's common history, values, institutions, habits, skills, technology, and arts
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Culture
