Applied Psychology - Mental Health! (0CR)

Question 1

What is the token-economy system?

Accepted Answer

Individual earns tokens by completing tasks or displaying desired behaviors

Question 2

How does the behaviourist perspective explain mental illness?

Accepted Answer

Believe that mental disorders are learnt and maintained through imitation

Question 3

What did Szasz believe?

Accepted Answer

He believed that there was no such thing as mental illness., Believes that disease is a concept that should not be applied to the mind.

Question 4

Define failure to function adequately

Accepted Answer

If a person is unable to live a normal life

Question 5

Define statistical infrequency

Accepted Answer

Any behaviour that is shown less often than the normal amount

Question 6

What is the aim of the key research by Rosenhan?

Accepted Answer

To test the diagnostic system to see if it was valid and reliable, To extend the efforts of previous researchers, To observe and report on the experience of being in a psychiatric hospital

Question 7

During the prehistoric era, what treatment did they use to treat the mentally ill?

Accepted Answer

Trephination - This was believed to release trapped spirits

Question 8

What is a advantage of the behaviourist perspective?

Accepted Answer

Can be used to explain how patients symptoms multiply after hospitalisation

Question 9

What is a non-biological treatment for schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

Token economy system

Question 10

How does the cognitive perspective explain schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

Symptoms of schizophrenia are caused by disordered and faulty thinking

Question 11

CBT is not time consuming as clients rarely need to attend sessions.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 12

During the prehistoric era, what view did they have of mental illness?

Accepted Answer

They were assumed to stem from supernatural beings that disrupted the mind

Question 13

CBT is not effective as medications in treating mental health disorders.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and negative symptoms such as alogia are symptoms of bipolar.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 15

What was the aim of Szasz research?

Accepted Answer

To challenge the medical character of the concept of mental illness, To consider mental illness as behaviours that disturb an individual

Question 16

A disadvantage of the definition, a deviation from social norms, is that it is culturally specific.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

What is the DSM-5?

Accepted Answer

Used by healthcare professionals in the USA to diagnose mental disorders, Known as the diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders

Question 18

What is an example of an anxiety disorder?

Accepted Answer

OCD

Question 19

What is an example of a affective disorder?

Accepted Answer

Bipolar

Question 20

This study is a study and involves participants.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 21

What research method did Szasz use?

Accepted Answer

Article

Question 22

What method did Rosenhan use?

Accepted Answer

Field study, Participant observation and self report

Question 23

Rosenhan used a controlled laboratory experiment.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 24

How can CBT help treat someone with a mental illness?

Accepted Answer

Aims to help them to deal with overwhelming problems in a more positive way, Clients are shown how to change their negative thinking patterns, CBT deals with the clients current problems

Question 25

Define deivation from ideal mental health

Accepted Answer

When several criteria believed to represent ideal mental health are not met

Question 26

Rosenhan concluded that psychiatric diagnosis is inaccurate and the sane cannot be distinguished from the insane.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

The presence of reccurent, obsessional thoughts or impulsive acts are the symptoms of what disorder?

Accepted Answer

OCD

Question 28

According to Szasz, he believed that psychiatry is a pseudoscience and that mental illness is a metaphor/myth.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 29

What is a symptom of bipolar?

Accepted Answer

Increased talkativeness and increased energy

Question 30

What is an example of a psychotic disorder?

Accepted Answer

Schizophrenia

Question 31

The token economy system uses operant conditioning as it involves rewarding undesirable behaviours with tokens.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 32

A advantage of the DSM and the ICD is that they are updated to allow for changes in social attitudes and norms

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

Define deviation from social norms

Accepted Answer

If a person does not abide by the normal social behaviours

Question 34

What is CBT?

Accepted Answer

Cognitive behavioural therapy

Question 35

What sample did Rosenhan use?

Accepted Answer

8 sane people (5 men, 3 women)

Question 36

How does the behaviourist perspective explain schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

This area explains schizoprhenia as a learned response., The disorder develops through a process of operant conditioning, Bizarre behaviour gains attention, so may be reinforced

Question 37

Cogntive psychologists explain behaviour in terms of mental processes such as thinking, memory and attention.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 38

What did Rosenhan find out?

Accepted Answer

All pseudo patients were admitted and had a lack of power

Question 39

How can CBT treat schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

Focuses on the positive symptoms and aims to improve coping strategies

Question 40

A advantage of diagnostic criteria is that they are highly reliable and valid in diagnosing disorders.

Accepted Answer

False

Applied Psychology - Mental Health! (0CR)

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