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psychopathology - Answer-study of nature, development, treatments of psychological disorders personal distress - Answer-emotional pain/suffering ie. helplessness of depression disability - Answer-impairment in a key area violation of social norms - Answer-makes others uncomfortable har...

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Abnormal Psych Exam 1 FSU Questions
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psychopathology - Answer-study of nature, development, treatments of psychological
disorders

personal distress - Answer-emotional pain/suffering
ie. helplessness of depression

disability - Answer-impairment in a key area

violation of social norms - Answer-makes others uncomfortable

harmful dysfunction - Answer-distress and disability that are harmful

DSM5 definition of mental disorder - Answer--occurs within individual
-clinically significant difficulties in thinking, feeling, or behaving
-dysfunction in processing that supports mental functioning
-NOT culturally specific reaction to event (death)
-not a result of social deviance or conflict w society

4 characteristics of stigma - Answer-label is applied
label refers to undesirable attributes
ppl w/ label are seen as different
ppl w/ label are discriminated against

Hippocrates - Answer-5th century
mental illnesses have NATURAL not supernatural causes
normal brain functioning depends on balance of 4 humors (blood, black bile, yellow bile,
phlegm)

Philippe Pinel - Answer-french physician
-made a more humane psychological approach to custody/care of psychiatric patients,
referred to today as moral therapy
-contributed to classification of mental disorders

Galton - Answer-notion that mental illness can be inherited
-parents contribute 1/2
-grandparents contribute 1/4
-grandparents contribute 1/8

Eugenics - Answer-promotion of enforced sterilization to eliminate undesired
characteristics
-many states require mentally ill to be sterilized

, insulin-coma theory - Answer-patients repeatedly injected w/ large doses of insulin to
produce daily comas over several weeks

electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - Answer-induce epileptic seizures w/ electric shock

Prefrontal lobotomy - Answer-Moniz
used to control violent behavior
led to listlessness, apathy, and loss of cognitive abilities

Dorothea Dix - Answer-1802-1887
crusader for prisoners and mentally ill
urged improvement of institutions
established 32 new, public hospitals

Mesmer - Answer-1734-1815
treated patients w/ HYSTERIA
used "animal magnetism"
early practitioner of hypnosis
student: Charcot who supported hypnosis as treatment for hysteria

Breuer - Answer-used hypnosis to facilitate catharsis in Anna O

Cathartic method: release of emotional tension triggered by reliving and talking about
event

Anna O - Answer-pseudonym for breuer's patient
published her case study in his book
real name Bertha

"Studies in Hysteria" - Answer-published by Breuer and Freud in 1895
basis for Freud's theory

Freudian/Psychoanalytic Theory - Answer-Human behavior determined by unconscious
forces
Psychopathology results from conflicts among these unconscious forces

Freud's Structural Model - Answer-Id, ego, superego

Id - Answer-unconscious, immediate gratification, biological and instinctual drive, innate
nothing matters but pleasure
"your wild child"

Ego - Answer-primarily conscious, reality principle, attempts to satisfy id's demands
within reality's constraints, self-control
"your practical grown up self"

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