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Flashcards by Briana Wynn, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Briana Wynn
about 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| psychopathology | the symptoms and signs of mental disorders. |
| Abnormal psychology | application of psychological science to the study of mental disorders. |
| psychosis | general term referring t several types of severe mental disorders in which the person is considered to be out of contact with reality |
| syndrome | a group of symptoms that appear together and are assumed to represent a specific type of disorder |
| harmful | The condition causes harm to the person as judged by the standards of the person's culture |
| dysfunction ( harmful dysfunction) | some internal mechanism within the person is improperly functioning. |
| culture | defined in terms of the values, beliefs, and practices that are shared by a specific community or group of people. |
| epidemiology | the scientific study of the frequency and distribution of disorders within a population |
| incidence | refers to the number of new cases of a disorder that appear in a population during a specific period of time. |
| prevalence | total number of active cases, both old and new, that are present in a population during a specific |
| comorbidity | the presence of more than one condition within the same period of time |
| psychiatry | branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of mental disorders. |
| clinical psychology | application of psychological science to the assessment and treatment of mental disorders |
| social work | concerned with helping people to achieve an effective level of psychosocial functioning. |
| case study | an in-depth look at the symptoms and circumstances surrounding one person's mental disturbances. |
| hypothesis | any new prediction |
| null hypothesis | the alternative to the experimental hypothesis. Always predicts that the experimental hypothesis is not true. |
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