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
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Abnormal Psych Exam 1 FSU Questions
and Answers
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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