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| Loss of control over emotions and behaviour unique to Caribbean individuals triggered by changes in their social world | Ataques De nervios |
| A system for grouping together objects or organisms that share certain properties. | classification system |
| A system in which the person is rated with regard to several separate aspects of behaviour or adjustment | multiaxial classification |
| The process of gathering and organizing a persons behaviour | assessment |
| looks at the social context in which abnormal behavior occurs: sees mental behaviours as maladaptive social roles | labeling theory |
| assumes that distictions between members of different catagories are qualitative | Catigorical approach |
| concerned with factors that contribute to the onset of the disorder | Etiological validity |
| The diagnostic system for metal disorders publised by the World Health Organization | International Classification of Diseases (ICD) |
| describes the objects of classification in terms of contiuous dimentions | dimentional approach |
| concerned with the present time and with correlations between the disorder and other symptoms, circumstances, and test procedures | Concurrent valitidy |
| focus on the frequency of speciic behavioral events, requiring fewer inferences on the part of the observer | Behavioral coding systems |
| Saying things about a specific person that are true of most people | Barnum Effect |
| the diagnostic system for mental disorders publised by the American Psyciatric Association | Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of mental Disorders (DSM) |
| A quick series of brain images that reflect second-to second differences in blood flow to brain areas while engaged in cognitive tasks | Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) |
| The identification or recognition of a disorder on the basis of its characteristic symptoms | Diagnosis |
| Pattern of unusual thinking or behavior unique to a particular society that expresses distress | Culture bound syndrome |
| an assesment interview that follows a specific question-and-answer format | Structured interviews |
| a statistic of relaibility that reflects the proportion of agreement that occurred above and beyond what would have occurred by chance alone | Kappa |
| the meaning of a systematic importance of a consturct or measurement | validity |
| the most extensively used personality inventory | Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory |
| Aa label that sets a person apart in a negative way | Stigma |
| concerend with the future and with the stability of the problem over time | Predictive valitidity |
| an assessment device werein the observer makes judgments that place the person along a dimension | Rating scales |
| objective tests consisting of a series of staightforward statements that the person uses to indicate how true of false they are in relation to him- or herself | Personality inventories |
| the consistency of measurements | Reliability |
| analysis of test results based on an explicit set of rules derived from emirical research | Actuarial interperetation |
| a dynamic brian imaging technique using special radioactive elements to produce relativly detailed images of the brain, which can refelct changes in brain activity as a person perorms various tasks | Positron emission tomography |
| personality tests in which the person is asked to interpet a series of ambiguous stimuli | Projective tests |
| a brain imaging technique that passes electomagnetic phenomena through brain tissue to provide a static image of brain structures | Magnetic resonance imaging |
| the simultaneous appearance of two or more disoders in the same person | Comorbidity |
| people altering their behavior, either intentionally or unintentionally, when they know they are being observed | Reactivity |
