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psychodynamic model
-unconcious behavior influenced by early childhood experiences
id (freud)
instinctual needs, drives, and impules
ego (freud)
in accordance with reality principle/knowledge acquired through experience
What disorder did Freud believed played a key role in most forms of psychopathy?
Anxiety
psychodynamic treatment
focuses on insight including free association and dream analysis
catharsis
reliving of past repressed feelings
behavioral/cognitive pscyhology
focus on learning experience -important: faulty learning experiences lead to erroneous association and disorders
classical conditioning
reflexive response related to unrelated stimulus
operant conditioning
learned behaviors via reniforcement, things people have control over
cognitive theory
Beck proposed that thoughts/attitudes/perceptions are what matter; can have same exerpience but perception makes difference
Beck's Negative Cognitive Triad
Self--- "I am worthless" World/Global--- "This world is unfair" Future/Stable--- "My future is hopeless"
CBT (cognitive-behavioral therapy)
one of most effective treatments for anxiety & depression
atheoretical
focuses on description rather than explanation
polythetic
individual must meet some of many criteria for diagnosis as opposed to ALL criteria
categorical
presumes diagnoses are discrete entities (major debate
DSM-5 is a medical model meaning
presupposees that mental illnesses are disease-like
disease vs. syndrome
disease: known cause or pathogen syndrome: collection of all symptoms that form a definable pattern
base rate
frequency of occurences in general population
incidence
# of new cases in given time frame
DSM Axis 1
primary diagnoses, anxiety or mood disorder
DSM Axis 2
Primary diagnoses, mental retardation or personality disorder
DSM Axis III
medical conditions
DSM Axis IV
psychosocial or environmental problems
DSM Axis V
Global assessment of functioning
efficacy
studies that are tightly controlled -few active components -strict inclusion/exclusion
effectiveness
studies that examine how treatment works in the "real world" -less variable control
broca
patient could understand language, but couldn't speak it.
wernicke
patients couldn't understand language but could speak it.
random sample
one in which likliehood of being in the same in every person in the population
Projective Test
requires an individual to respond to indistinct stimuli (Rorschach test)

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