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PSYCH350 EXAM – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100& CORRECT)
PSYCH350 EXAM – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100& CORRECT)
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PSYCH350 EXAM – QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS (100&CORRECT)
Deviance ✔️Ans - Bizarre or unusual behavior dependent on culture
Distress ✔️Ans - These behaviors bring you to state of distress
Dysfunction ✔️Ans - If unusual behaviors interfere with daily functioning
Danger ✔️Ans - unusual things take off and are deemed unsafe
Why is the definition of abnormal psychology ever-changing? ✔️Ans -
Hard to define the difference between an abnormality that requires
intervention and an eccentric (ex of eccentric. Man who lives alone with his
10 cats, but is not dysfunctional in society)
Szasz says abnormality is... ✔️Ans - "problems in living" not "problems
within a person"
Treatment: definition, essential features ✔️Ans - -change abnormal
behavior into normal behavior
-Requires a sufferer, healer, and a series of contacts
Ancient societies ✔️Ans - abnormality caused by evil spirits, trephination
operation drill holes in person's brain to let the evil spirit out and
exorcism, possession by demons
Greek and Romans- 500 BCE-500CE ✔️Ans - physical pathology caused in
four humors, inspired by Hippocrates
middle ages (500 - 1350) ✔️Ans - demonic causes, exorcism by
clergymen
1400- 1700 CE ✔️Ans - -Weyer 1st physician to study mental illness,
founder of psychopathology, found illness susceptible to the mind
-Limited care at religious shrines
-asylums by the 16th century
, 19th Century ✔️Ans - -Spread of moral treatment
-Dorthea Dix: made humane care a public and political concern
20th century ✔️Ans - -somatogenic perspective- Abnormal Functioning
has physical causes- inspired by
Hippocrates (fatigue)
-psychogenic perspective-abnormal functioning psychologically caused-
Rise in
popularity based on work with hypnosis Freud, and Mesmer
-psychotropic meds led to deinstitutionalization
-out-patient care most common form of treatment/therapy in the 20th
century (insurance coverage)
psychotropic medications ✔️Ans - drugs that primarily affect the brain
and reduce many symptoms of mental dysfunction (1950s)
-antipsychotic drugs- antidepressant drugs antianxiety drugs
Deinstitutionalization ✔️Ans - Outpatient care, Community health
approach
Preventative approach ✔️Ans - helps individuals who are at risk of
developing emotional problems before they arise
multicultural psychology ✔️Ans - how culture, race, ethnicity, gender, and
similar factors affect behavior and thought and how people of different
cultures, races, and genders may differ psychologically (40% of US is a
minority) focuses on intersectionality
managed care programs ✔️Ans - insurance company determines such key
issues as which therapists its clients may choose, the cost of sessions, and
the number of sessions for which a client may be reimbursed
-therapists and clients typically don't like these programs, reimbursements
for mental disorders tend to be lower than those for physical disorders
todays theories ✔️Ans - biological, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic-
existential, sociocultural, and developmental psychopathology
before the 1950s theories ✔️Ans - psychoanalytic theory popular
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