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abnormal psychology correct answers How people are thinking, feeling and acting. No set
definition
Psychopathology is the nature and development of abnormal _______ correct answers Affect,
Behavior, Cognition
Abnormality is usually determined by the presence of several characteristics at one time such as
_____ correct answers Statistical frequency, Violation of norms, Personal suffering, Disability or
dysfunction, Unexpectedness
Statistical frequency correct answers Someone outside the normal distribution curve
Violation of norms correct answers Something we create as a culture, what is outside that norm?
Disability or dysfunction correct answers Is it preventing people from achieving their life goals?
Everyday jobs, etc
Somatogensis correct answers Hippocrates separated medical from magic, religion, and
superstition
Somatogensis correct answers Originated from the body
Somatogensis correct answers Demonology was separated
Somatogensis correct answers First classification form
Demonology correct answers Loss of reason = witchcraft
Demonology correct answers World conditions - poverty, diseases, etc
Demonology correct answers People with mental illness are possessed by the devil
Demonology correct answers Treatment - you were burned, tortured and killed
Asylums correct answers Bedlam and mental health tourism
Asylums correct answers First attempt to contain people with mental health issue
Moral Treatment correct answers Move toward humanitarianism
Moral Treatment correct answers First time people with mental health problems realized they
were ill
,Classification systems correct answers Kraepelin's conceptualization of syndromes is the
precursor to modern classification system
Historical Perspective of Mental Health Care in Canada correct answers The health care system
in Canada has not always been stellar in its ethical treatment of patients under its care
Historical Perspective of Mental Health Care in Canada correct answers Lobotomies were
effectively banned in all psychiatric hospital in early 1980s
Mental Health Care in Canada correct answers Canada has had a universal health care system
since 1970
Mental Health Care in Canada correct answers Each province/territory is responsible for
administrating health care
Mental Health Care in Canada correct answers Health-care re-organization and funding cuts have
led to the closing of long-term psychiatric mental hospitals and beds on psychiatric hospital
wards
Mental Health Care in Canada correct answers Community services are expected to take over
some of these services
Psychopathology correct answers the field concerned with the nature and development of
abnormal behaviour, thoughts, and feelings
abnormal behaviour correct answers statistical infrequency, violation of norms, personal distress,
disability or dysfunction, and unexpectedness
Statistical Infrequency correct answers One aspect of abnormal behaviour is that it is infrequent
in the general population,
Statistical Infrequency correct answers The normal curve, or bell-shaped curve, places that
majority of people in the middle as far as any particular characteristic is concerned; very few
people fall at either extreme
Statistical infrequency correct answers is used explicitly in diagnosing mental retardation.
Though a number of criteria are used to diagnose mental retardation, low intelligence is a
principle one. When an individual's IQ is below 70, his or her intellectual functioning is
considered sufficiently subnormal to be designated as mental retardation
Violation of norms correct answers explicitly makes abnormality a relative concept; various
forms of unusual behaviours can be tolerated, depending on the prevailing cultural norms. Yet
violation of norms is at once too broad and too narrow
personal suffering correct answers behaviour is abnormal if it creates great distress and torment
in the person experiencing it
,• correct answers Not all forms of distress belong to the field (ex. Hunger, or the pain of
childbirth)
Disability correct answers impairment in some important area of life because of an abnormality -
can also be a component of abnormal behaviour
Substance-use disorders correct answers defined in part by the social or occupational disability
created by substance abuse or addiction
Demonology correct answers The doctrine that an evil being, such as the devil, may dwell within
a person and control his or her mind and body is called __________
exorcism correct answers Following from the belief that abnormal behaviour was caused by
possession, its treatment often involved ______, the casting out of evil spirits by ritualistic
chanting or torture
Trepanning correct answers ________ of skulls (the making of a surgical opening in a living
skull by some instrument) by Stone Age or Neolithic cave dwellers was quite widespread.
Somatogenesis correct answers Hippocrates often regarded as the father of modern medicine,
separated medicine from religion, magic and superstition.
Somatogenesis correct answers He rejected the prevailing Greek belief that the gods sent serious
physical diseases and mental disturbances as punishment and insisted instead that such illness
had natural cause and hence should be treated like other, more common maladies, such as colds
and constipation
Hippocrates correct answers regarded the brain as the organ of consciousness, of intellectual life
and emotion; thus he thought that deviant thinking and behaviour were indications of some kind
of brain pathology
Hippocrates correct answers is often considered one of the earliest proponents of somatogenesis -
the notion that something wrong with the soma, or physical body, disturbs thought and action
Philippe Pinel correct answers is considered a primary figure in the movement for humanitarian
treatment of the mentally ill in asylums
Philippe Pinel correct answers began to treat the patients as sick human beings rather than as
beasts.
Philippe Pinel correct answers believed that the patients in his care were essentially normal
people who should be approached with compassion and understanding, and treated with dignity
as individual human beings
, Philippe Pinel correct answers surmised that if patients' reason had left them because of severe
personal and social problems and the presence of these passions, it might be restored to them
through comforting counsel and purposeful activity
Emil Kraepelin correct answers A textbook of psychiatry, written by Gresinger's well known
follower ______ and first published in 1883, finished a classification system in order to establish
the biological nature of mental illness
Emil Kraepelin correct answers discerned among mental disorders a tendency for a certain group
of symptoms, called a syndrome, to appear together regularly enough to be regarded as having an
underlying physical cause, mush as a particular medical disease and it syndrome may be
attributed to a biological disfunction
Emil Kraepelin correct answers proposed two major groups of severe mental diseases: dementia
praecox, and early term for schizophrenia, and manic-depressive psychosis (now called bipolar
disorder)
Emil Kraepelin correct answers postulated a chemical imbalance as the cause of schizophrenia
and an irregularity in metabolism as the explanation of manic-depressive psychosis
Degenerative changes in the brain cells correct answers associated with senile and presenile
psychoses and some structural pathologies that accompany mental retardation where identified
Mesmer and Charcot correct answers
Franz Anton Mesmer correct answers believed that hysterical disorders were caused by a
particular distribution of a universal magnetic fluid in the body
Franz Anton Mesmer correct answers He felt that one person could influence the fluid of another
to bring about a change in the other's behaviour
Franz Anton Mesmer correct answers conducted meetings cloaked in mystery and mysticism at
which affiliated patients sat around a covered baquet, or tub. Iron rods protruded through the
cover of the baquet from bottles underneath that contained various chemicals.
Franz Anton Mesmer correct answers Mesmer was regarded as a quack by his contemporaries,
but the study of hypnosis gradually became respectable
Jean Martin Charcot correct answers also studied hysterical states, including anaesthesia,
paralysis, blindness, deafness, convulsive attacks, and gaps in memory
Jean Martin Charcot correct answers initially espoused a somatogenic point of view. One day,
however, some of his enterprising students hypnotized a normal women and prompted her to
display certain hysterical symptoms.
