PSY 320-Abnormal Psychology EXAM 1 Questions and Answers
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Abnormal Psychology
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Abnormal Psychology
What is abnormal psychology? - Answer-the scientific study of abnormal behavior undertaken to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning
What are the 2 types of workers in this abnormal psychology? - Answer-Clinical scientists, clinical practioners
What is a clini...
PSY 320-Abnormal Psychology EXAM 1
Questions and Answers
What is abnormal psychology? - Answer-the scientific study of abnormal behavior
undertaken to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning
What are the 2 types of workers in this abnormal psychology? - Answer-Clinical
scientists, clinical practioners
What is a clinical scientist? - Answer-Researchers (i.e. brain imaging)
What is a clinical practitioner? - Answer-Therapists (Apply based)- People you go to
What are the four D's? - Answer-Deviance, Distress, Dysfunctional, and Danger
What is Deviance? - Answer--Dominant norms of society (norms, culture)
-Different, extreme, unusual, bizarre
What is a norm? - Answer-a society's stated and unseated rules for proper conduct
What is culture? - Answer-a people's common history, values, institutions, habits, skills,
technology, and arts
What is distressing? - Answer--Unpleasant or distressing to the person (behavior, ideas,
or emotions, usually have to cause distress before labeled)
What is dysfunctional? - Answer-Interfering with the person's ability to conduct daily
activities in a constructive way
What is dangerous? - Answer-Risk to a person
What is treatment (therapy)? - Answer-a systematic procedure designed to change
abnormal behavior into more normal behavior
All forms of therapy have three key features: - Answer-Sufferer, Healer, and Series of
Contacts
How was abnormality viewed in the past? - Answer-Work of evil spirits; demonic
What is trephination? - Answer-an ancient operation in which a stone instrument was
used to cut away a circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior
During the Greek and Roman times, what was humors? - Answer-bodily chemicals that
influence mental and physical functioning
, During the Renaissance, what was an asylum? - Answer-a type of institution that first
became popular win the 16th century to provide care for persons with mental disorders;
became virtual prisons
In the middle ages, what was Mass Madness? - Answer-large numbers of people
apparently shared absurd false beliefs and imagined sights or sounds
What is tarantism? - Answer-groups of people would suddenly start to jump, dance, and
go into convulsions
What is lycanthropy? - Answer-people thought they were possessed by wolves or other
animals
What is moral treatment? - Answer-A nineteenth century approach to treating people
with mental dysfunction that emphasized moral guidance and humans and respectful
treatment
Who started moral treatment? - Answer-Benjamin Rush
Who is Dorothea Dix? - Answer-made humane care a public and political concern in the
U.S.
What is a state hospital? - Answer-state run public mental institutions in the U.S.
What is the somatogenic perspective? - Answer-The view that abnormal psychological
functioning has physical causes (i.e. fatigue)
Who discovered the somatogenic perspective? - Answer-Emil Kraepelin
What is the psychogenic perspective? - Answer-the view that the chief causes of
abnormal functioning are psychological
Who came up with psychogenic perspective? - Answer-Anton Mesmer
What does hypnotism mean? - Answer-procedure in which a person is placed in a
trancelike mental state during which he or she becomes extremely suggestible ;
Mesmer
What is the theory of psychoanalysis? - Answer-either the theory or the treatment of
abnormal mental functioning that emphasizes unconscious psychological forces as the
causes of psychopathology
What is psychotropic medications? - Answer-drugs that mainly affect the brain and
reduce many symptoms of mental dysfunctioning
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