Unit 20 Flashcardizz Review for AP Psychology

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What is psychopathology? (Page 496)

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The scientific study of mental disorders and different types of maladaptive behaviors associated with various disorders.

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Who wrote the book The Myth of Mental Illness and believed that psychological disorders are actually “problems in living?”

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Thomas Szasz

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What is abnormal psychology? (Page 497)

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The study and treatment of psychological disorders or mental illness.

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What are the criteria for psychological disorders?

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Maladaptive behavior, personal distress, atypical behavior, and violation of cultural norms.

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What is a legal term used to determine whether an individual is to be held accountable or liable for criminal behavior; it refers to the inability to know right from wrong or the inability to control one’s actions during a criminal event?

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Insanity

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How does the APA define a psychological disorder?

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A syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental process underlying mental functioning.

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What is it called when holes are drilled into a person’s skull to release demonic spirits thought to be causing a person’s disordered behavior?

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Trephining

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What were the four humors that Hippocrates thought caused mental illness due to imbalance?

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Blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm.

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What surgical procedure damages or removes the frontal lobe?

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Lobotomy

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What are theoretical approaches that attempt to explain the causes of psychological disorder?

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Etiology