Exam 2: An Integrative Approach to Psychopathology

Most psychological disorders appear to be influenced by many individual genes rather than caused by one single gene, a process referred to as influence.

The "evil eye," Latin American susto, and the Haitian phenomenon of voodoo death are currently viewed as examples of the

The model that describes the development of psychopathology as a combination of an inherited predisposition and the events that have occurred in the individual's life is called .

In the Stroop color naming paradigm, a patient with a blood phobia would be expected to name the color of the printed word "wound"

The fact that depression can be caused by mental illness or drug use is an example of how

John has inherited a personality trait that makes him more likely to keep to himself than to socialize. As a result, he does not have many friends and spends a lot of time alone. If John were to develop depression, the model that would probably best explain this situation and the cause of his depression is .

The ability to plan, think, reason, and create is located in the part of the brain called the .

Candace believes that no matter how hard she studies, she will never succeed in college. This behavior can best be explained by _.

Referring to behavior and personality as polygenic means that both are

The most recent research evidence suggests that the relationship between the brain (structure, function, neurotransmitters) and psychosocial factors (socialization, rearing, life events) is best described as

The relationship between emotion and health is demonstrated by the fact that

Within the multidimensional integrative approach to understanding psychopathology, learned helplessness is considered a(n) dimension.

In a landmark study by Caspi et. al. (2003), researchers studied the stressful life events and genetics of 847 individuals. For individuals who had at least four stressful life events, the risk of major depression

For most people, perception and the creation of images are usually handled by the .

Extremely low levels of dopamine activity are associated with .

The basis of the multidimensional integrative approach to understanding psychopathology is that each dimension (psychological, biological, emotional, etc.)

In the 1992 studies conducted by Baxter et al., OCD patients were provided with cognitive-behavioral therapy (exposure and response prevention) but no drugs. This study is important because brain imaging showed that

Some people may be genetically predisposed to seek out difficult relationships. These difficult relationships may contribute to their experience of depression. This is an example of the .

It is important to understand the process of how learned helplessness is created in laboratory animals because learned helplessness in animals resembles the human disorder of .

Research exposing subjects to the virus that causes the common cold (Cohen et al., 1997) demonstrated that