Exam 1: Introducing Psychopathology: Concepts, Paradigms and Practices

Which of the following is not part of Beck's cognitive theories of depression?

Which of the following is not a central tenet of the cognitive model of psychopathology?

A common explanation of psychopathology in some less developed areas of the world - especially where witchcraft and voodoo are still important features of the local culture such as Haiti and some areas of Western Africa (Desrosiers & Fleurose,2002)is known as which of the following?

Which one of the following would a client centred therapist use?

A factor that Freud believed could cause psychopathology was how children negotiated various stages of development from infancy to maturity)He defined a number of important stages through which childhood development progressed,and each of these stages was named after which of the following?

Which broad ranging approach to understanding and treating mental health problems acknowledges the importance of the influence of a person's socio-economic situation,education and support structure?

Psychoanalysis was the first approach to introduce a number of perspectives on psychopathology that are still important today,including which of the following?

Psychoanalysis is an attempt to explain what?

Which of the following of Freud's ideas is still important to psychopathology today?

When talking of classification we tend to use words like 'crazy','madness' and 'insanity' regularly - as if we knew what we meant by those terms)However,we do tend to use these terms in which of the following different circumstances?

Which of the following were historical explanations of psychopathology?

Which one of these would not explain the development of dysfunctional thoughts?

What is the name of the method used to study psychopathology symptoms across different family members who may differ in the extent to which they are genetically related to each other?

Who is thought to be one of the first doctors to introduce more humane treatments for those suffering from psychological distress?

Which of the neurotransmitters has been particularly implicated in theories of psychotic symptoms and schizophrenia?

Which of the following is an organisation dedicated to changing the way in which society views people with mental health problems?

As successful as the cognitive approach seems to have been in recent years,it too also has some limitations)For example,rather than being a cause of psychopathology,it has to be considered that dysfunctional thoughts and beliefs may themselves simply be just:

The attempts in the 1960s to offer a more structured hospital environment for patients were known as:

Throughout history,we have been willing to label behaviour as 'mad,'crazy' or 'insane' if it appears unpredictable,irrational,harmful,or if it simply deviates from accepted contemporary social norms)Which of the following characters from history who have been labelled in such a way?

The brain is divided into two mirror-image hemispheres that are connected by a set of nerve fibres called the: