Exam 1: Introducing Psychopathology: Concepts, Paradigms and Practices

Which brain area is considered to be a focus for memory processes?

Aaron Beck developed a highly successful cognitive therapy for depression based on the view that depressed individuals have developed unrealistic distortions in the way they perceive:

The behavioural approach to psychopathology is based on what?

The medical model is based upon:

Psychoanalysis was arguably the first of the 'talking therapies' What percentage of modern practicing clinical psychologists identify themselves at least in part with a psychoanalytical or psychodynamic approach to psychopathology?

Classical conditioning processes have been implicated in:

What is the name given to the study of heritable changes in gene expression caused by environmental influences?

Which of the following models would suggest that complex cognitive factors can be reduced to simple biological descriptors?

Freud labelled the first 18 months of life as the:

Experiencing _____________ is the third most common reason for consulting a doctor or GP in the UK)

Behaviour modification is an example of which of the following treatment methods?

Which of the following models has the implicit assumption of something not working properly?

Historically,when someone exhibited symptoms typical of psychopathology,what type of trial was held to determine the individuals' sanity,and if the person was found to be insane,they were given the protection of the law (Neugebauer,1979))

People not only acquire psychological conflicts and experience emotional distress,they also have the ability to acquire self-awareness,develop important values and a sense of meaning in life,and pursue freedom of choice)If these latter abilities are positively developed and encouraged,then conflict,emotional distress and psychopathology can often be resolved)This is the general approach adopted by humanistic and existential models of psychopathology,and the aim is to resolve psychological problems through:

It is difficult to use cultural norms to define psychopathology because cultural factors seem to significantly affect how psychopathology manifests itself)Which of the following may be factors?

Social effects of stigma include:

Sigmund Freud was the pioneer of which of the following models of psychopathology?

Which of the following are limitations to the psychodynamic theory of psychopathology?