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What is abnormality? - Answer--Deviation from social/statistical norms -Maladaptive behavior -Chemical imbalance/brain abnormality -Causes personal distress/discomfort -Harmful dysfunction -Persistent symptoms *Personal distress and social impairment* Harmful Dysfunction - Answer-Behaviora...

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Abnormal Psych Exam 1 WUSTL
Questions with Correct Answers
What is abnormality? - Answer--Deviation from social/statistical norms
-Maladaptive behavior
-Chemical imbalance/brain abnormality
-Causes personal distress/discomfort
-Harmful dysfunction
-Persistent symptoms
*Personal distress and social impairment*

Harmful Dysfunction - Answer-Behavioral or psychological syndromes that reflect some
kind of underlying disfunction. It must result in distress, disability, or impairment in key
areas. Cannot arise from predictable stressor or a person issue with society.

Problems with defining abnormality - Answer--You may not feel distress, but others
around you do
-Statistical abnormality is not always a bad thing
-Each component is valid, but not sufficient

Classification Manuals - Answer--DSM-IV-TR published by the American Psychiatric
Association
-ICD-10 published by World Health Organization

Classification - Answer--Provides a common diagnosis, but can lead to negative
stigmas
-Largely descriptive

Etiological Apprach - Answer--Looks for cause of the disease rather than just describing
and classifying based on symptoms
-Treatments apply to a lot of people
-Can be replicated

Disease Burden - Answer-Combine mortality with disability
(depression has second highest disease burden-it is expensive, affects people in prime
of life, leading cause of disability)

Possession - Answer-People originally thought that mental disorders were dur to
possession by demons or spirits

Trepanning - Answer-Drilling a hole in the top of the head so as to let the evil spirits out
of the mind -- still practiced today

, Hippocrates - Answer-Imbalance of four bodily fluids (blood, phlegm, yellow/black bile)
resulted in all forms of disease - treated with leeches, blood letting, etc. - practiced till
the 1800s

Lunacy - Answer-The moon has effect on water, the brain is made of water, therefore
certain phases of the moon affects the water in the brain causing disorders

Movement to Asylums - Answer--No longer a family burden
-Worchestor Lunacy Hospital
-Confine and care for

Philippe Pinel - Answer-Humanitarian approach; create an environment of everyday life
with calming activities

Dorthea Dix - Answer--Moral treatment reform
-worked to establish public hospitals with properly trained staff

Deinstitutionalization - Answer-Legislation is being passed closing down hospitals in
favor of mental health community centers, but they are not be opened at the same rate
as closings, so there is an issue of prisons having to cope with the expelled patients -
medications also creating more private/at home care

Case Study - Answer-In-depth look into a person's experience - time consuming -
experience is unique and it is risky to generalize based off one example

Correlation studies - Answer--Doesn't prove causation
-Statistical relationship between two variables
-Positive=both increase (up, right)
-Negative=one increase, one decreases (d, r)
-Higher the abs. value, the stronger the relationship

Psychopathology - Answer-signs and symptoms of mental disorders

Psychosis - Answer-Severe disorder where the person is considered out of contact with
reality

Syndrome - Answer-Group of symptoms that appear together and are assumed to
represent a specific disorder
-more persistent the symptoms, the worse

Culture - Answer-Values, beliefs, and practices that are shared by a group of people
-Some disorders are constant across cultures
-Symptoms more likely to vary across cultures than disorders themselves

Epidemiology - Answer-study of the frequency and distribution of disorders within a
population

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