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14 Cards in this Set
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Psychopathology
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pathology of the mind
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Abnormal psychology
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application of psychological science to the study of mental disorders
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Psychosis
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general term that refers to several types of severe mental disorders in which the person is considered to be out of contact with reality
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Syndrome
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a group of symptoms that appear together and are assumed to represent a specific type of disorder
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Harmful dysfunction
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a concept used in one approach to the definition of mental disorder; a condition can be considered a mental disorder if it causes some harm to the person and if the condition results from the inability of some mental mechanism to perform its natural function
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Culture
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values, beliefs, and practices that are shared by a specific community or group of people
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Epidemiology
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scientific study of frequency and distribution of disorders within a population
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Incidence
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number of new cases of a disorder that appear in a population during a specific period of time
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Prevalence
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total number of active cases, both old and new, that are present in population during a specific period of time
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Lifetime prevalence
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total proportion of people in a given population who have been affected by the disorder at some point during their lives
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Comorbidity
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presence of more than one condition within the same period of time
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Case study
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in-depth look at the symptoms and circumstances surrounding one person’s mental disturbance
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Hypothesis
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any new prediction made by an investigator
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Null hypothesis
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alternative to the experimental hypothesis
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