Abnormal Psychology

Question 1

Theory of Hippocrates

Answer 1

Four humors/bodily fluids
Blood = Sanguine
Black bile = Melancholic
Yellow bile = Choleric
Phelgm = Phelgmatic

Question 2

True or False: Hippocrates and his followers rejecting the prevailing notion that illness was divine or sacred origin

Answer 2

True

Question 3

History: He said that there are 4 humors/bodily fluids involved in formation of illness

Answer 3

Hippocrates (4th Century)

Question 4

History: He had an anatomical approach on disease and body structure. He coined he term pathology

Answer 4

Jean Fernel (1497-1588)

Question 5

History: He made a classification system through symptomatology

Answer 5

Felix Platter (1536-1614)

Question 6

History: During this century, physicians and neurologist create a taxonomic system with irreducible and constant units

Answer 6

Late 17th Century

Question 7

History: Created a system based on detailed observation consisted of 10 classes, 40 orders, 78 genera, 2400 distinct diseases

Answer 7

Francois Baussier de Sauvages (18th Century)

Question 8

Differentiate symptoms and disease

Answer 8

Symptoms = observable manifestations
Disease = impairment of normal state

Question 9

History: Developed the first workable psychiatric nosography

Answer 9

Philippe Pinel (1745-1826)

Question 10

What are the 5 forms of insanity described by Philippe Pinel?

Answer 10

• Mania
• Melancholia with delirium
• Melancholia without delirium
• Dementia
• Idiotism

Question 11

T or F: Pinel was an advocate of physiological fictions and metaphysical hypotheses. He was purely descriptive.

Answer 11

False. He avoided the concepts

Question 12

History: He is coined as the Father of Systematic Psychiatry

Answer 12

Emil Kraeplin (late 19th Century)
- student of Wilheim Wundt

Question 13

What was Kraeplin’s goal with his theory?

Answer 13

To devise accurate an accurate definition of the separate disease processes and disease entities

Question 14

Kraeplin coined the term demetia praecox. What does it mean?

Answer 14

Shcizophrenia

Question 15

What are the two major groups of mental disorder defined by Kraeplin?

Answer 15

Manic-depressive psychoses

Dementia preacox

Question 16

Differences of all Diagnostic and Statistical Manuals (DSM)

Answer 16

DSM I - Largely unrealiable, too theory laden with psychodynamic view
DSM II (1968) - Classifications complatible with ICD, physical and psychological (purely descriptive)
DSM III - Atheoretical, specific criteria, Systemic description, Multiaxial system
DSM III-R Expanded coverage, increases reliability and updated with research
DSM IV
DSM V

Question 17

What composes the systematic description as described in the DSM III

Answer 17

Essential features
Associated features
Prevalence Rates
Sex ratio
Family pattern
Differential diagnoses

Question 18

What are the different axial systems in DSM III-R

Answer 18

Axis I Clinical Syndrome
Axis II Dev’t disorders and personality disorders
Axis III Physical disorders and conditions
Axis IV Severity of psychosocial stressors
Axis V Global assessment of functions

Question 19

Goal of DSM III-R

Answer 19

To avoid mixed and atypical diagnoses, while having good coverage and reliability

Question 20

T or F: Highest level of functioning can be seen during the past year

Answer 20

True