HOSA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH KNOWLEDGE ACTUAL TEST 3 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS (CORRECT VERIFIED SOLUTIONS) A NEW UPDATED VERSION 2024

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HOSA BEHAVIORAL HEALTH EXAM QUESTIONS
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Schizophrenia - u


ANS ✓a disorder characterized by the profound disruption of basic psychological
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processes; a distorted perception of reality; altered or blunted emotion; and dist
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urbances in thought, motivation, and behavior
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Schizophrenia treatments - ANS ✓Treatments for schizophrenia include:
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-Support group u


-Rehabilitation
-Cognitive therapy u


-Psychoeducation
-Family therapy u


-Behavior therapy u


-Group psychotherapy
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-Medication (Antipsychotic and Anti-tremor)
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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) -
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uANS ✓an anxiety disorder characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts (obses
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sion) and/ or actions (compulsions)
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OCD Treatments - ANS ✓Treatments for OCD:
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-Support group u


-Cognitive behavioral therapy
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-Aversion therapy u


-Psychoeducation
-Rational emotive behavior therapy
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-Exposure and response prevention
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-Psychotherapy
-Systematic desensitization u


-Group psychotherapy
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Medication (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI), Anxiolytic, and
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Antidepressant)

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) -
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uANS ✓an anxiety disorder associated with serious traumatic events and characte
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rized by such symptoms as survivor guilt, reliving the trauma in dreams, numbne
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ss and lack of involvement with reality, or recurrent thoughts and images
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PTSD Treatments - ANS ✓Treatments for PTSD include:
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-Cognitive behavioral therapy, u u u


-Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing
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-Exposure & Response Prevention u u u


-Medication (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI)) u u u u u




Applied Behavior Analysis - u u u


ANS ✓modern term for a form of functional analysis and behavior modification t
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hat uses a variety of behavioral techniques to mold a desired behavior or respons
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4 Major Dimensions of Recovery -
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ANS ✓heath, home, purpose, and community
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Continuum of care - ANS ✓promotion, prevention, treatment, & recovery
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Behavioral health - u u


uANS ✓a state of mental/emotional being and/or choices and actions that affect w
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ellness. Behavioral health problems include substance abuse or misuse, alcohol a
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nd drug addiction, serious psychological distress, suicide, and mental and substan
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ce use disorders
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Social factors that are related to early mortality -
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ANS ✓poverty, social isolation, and lack of quality healthcare
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Trepanation - u


uANS ✓ancient medical procedure in which a hole was drilled into a patient's skul
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l to "relieve pressure" or "release evil spirits"
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Major roots of psychology (two) - ANS ✓philosophy and natural sciences
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Wilhelm Wundt - u u


ANS ✓set up first psychological laboratory; a founder of structuralism
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Structuralism - u


ANS ✓an early school of psychology that used introspection to explore the struct
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ural elements of the human mind
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Edward Titchener - u u


u ANS ✓Student of Wilhelm Wundt; a founder of Structuralist school of psychology
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Functionalism - u


ANS ✓a school of psychology that focused on how mental and behavioral process
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es function - how they enable the organism to adapt, survive, and flourish
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Sigmund Freud - u u


ANS ✓developed the psychodynamic theory; existence of unconscious mind, dev
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elopment of sexuality, dream analysis, and psychoanalysis
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Humanistic approach - u u


ANS ✓an approach to psychology emphasizing a persons positive qualities, the c
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apacity for positive growth, and the freedom to choose any destiny. Founded by R
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oger Maslow, it emphasizes the idea that all humans are naturally good natured, a
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nd are striving to attain a strong self-image and climb the pyramid of needs
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Behavioralism - u


uANS ✓a theory that psychology is essentially a study of external human behavior
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rather than internal consciousness and desires
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Biological psychology - u u


ANS ✓a branch of psychology concerned with the links between biology and beh
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Evolutionary pyschology - u u


ANS ✓a theoretical approach to psychology that attempts to explain useful ment
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al and psychological traits—such as memory, perception, or language—
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as adaptations, i.e., as the functional products of natural selection.
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Sensory receptors - u u


ANS ✓sensory nerve ending that responds to a stimulus in the internal or extern
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al environment of an organism
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Neuron - ANS ✓a specialized cell transmitting nerve impulses; a nerve cell
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Sensory neurons - u u


ANS ✓a neuron conducting impulses inwards to the brain or spinal cord
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Motor neurons - u u


ANS ✓a nerve cell forming part of a pathway along which impulses pass from the
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brain or spinal cord to a muscle or gland
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Interneurons - u


uANS ✓a neuron that transmits impulses between other neurons, especially as pa
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rt of a reflex arc
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Synapse - u


ANS ✓a junction between two nerve cells, consisting of a minute gap across whic
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h impulses pass by diffusion of a neurotransmitter
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Dendrite (receive) - u u


uANS ✓a short branched extension of a nerve cell, along which impulses received f
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rom other cells at synapses are transmitted to the cell body.
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Axon (relay) - u u


ANS ✓the long threadlike part of a nerve cell along which impulses are conducte
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d from the cell body to other cells
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Myelin sheath - u u


ANS ✓a fatty white substance that surrounds the axon of some nerve cells, formi
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ng an electrically insulating layer
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Action potential - u u


uANS ✓a neural impulse; a brief electrical charge that travels down an axon. The a
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ction potential is generated by the movement of positively charged atoms in and
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out of channels in the axon's membrane.
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Threshold - ANS ✓The level of stimulation required to trigger a neural impulse
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Neurotransmitter - u


ANS ✓a chemical substance that is released at the end of a nerve fiber by the arri
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val of a nerve impulse and, by diffusing across the synapse or junction, causes the
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