ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 1 WHAT ARE THE 4D'SOF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR? - 1. deviant 2. distress 3. dysfunctional 4. danger what is deviant - occurs infrequently in person's culture/community what is distress - causes the person or others psychological pain what is dysfunction - interferes with person's ability to maintain relationships, life or job what is danger - physically harmful to themselves or others WHAT ARE THE 4 ANCIENT HUMOURS - blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm what was the ancient name and characteristic for blood - 1. Sanguine 2 courageous, hopeful and amorous what was the ancient name and characteristic for yellow bile - 1. choleric 2. easily angered, bad tempered what was the ancient name and characteristic for black bile - 1. melancolic 2. despondent sleepless, irritable what was the ancient name and characteristics fro phlegm - 1 phlegmatic 2. calm, unemotional WHAT WERE THE SWING IN VIEWS AND TREATMENTS FOR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY FROM THE STONE AGE? - views? work of evil spirits Treatment? trephination and exorcisms what were the views and treatments for psychopathology from the Greek and romans - views? illnesses had natural causes Treatment? rebalance the 4 humors what were the views and treatments for psychopathology from the middle ages - views? demonology returns treatment? prayer, holy objects , confinement, and exporcisms what were the views and treatments from psychopathology from the Renaissance - views? bodily functions, psychic or mental causes treatments? hypnosis, asylums WHAT IS MORAL TREATMENT - humane type of care HOW DOES A MORAL TREATMENT DIFFER FROM EARLIER ASYLUM CONDITIONS - asylums were made to remove the mentally ill from the general population. provided very little treatment. moral treatment, people were treated DURING WHAT TIME PERIDO WAS MORAL TREATMENT EMPHASIZED IN - during the 1th century WHAT IS MASS MADNESS? - abnormal behavior increased. mass hysteria WHEN WAS MASS MADNESS COMMON - during the middle ages WHAT IS TARANTISM? - victims of tarantula's spirit which led to raving, jumping, dancing and convulsions WHAT IS LYCANTHROPY - a person has been transformed into a demonic animal WHAT ARE THE TWO COMPETITIVE PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCOPATIHOLOGY IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY - Somatogenic and the psychogenic perspective WHAT IS the somatogenic perspective ? - abnormal functioning has physical causes WHAT IS the psychogenic perspective ? - abnormal functioning has psychological causes WHO WAS HIPPOCRATES? - known as the father of modern medicine WHAT WAS HIPPOCRATES CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCOPATHOLOGY - created therapeutic environments WHO WAS PHILIPPE PINEL and what was his contribution to psychopathology - from france, introduced an alternative to asylums WHO WAS DORTHEA DIX? - from