Crossword & Word Search Ch. 1 – Flashcards
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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
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