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1
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What is the definition of psychological disorders?

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ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR patterns that involve a disturbance of PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING OR BEHAVIOR

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What do we assume if a person acts normal?

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We assume they are okay

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What is the criteria for determining abnormality?

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Social NORMS, false BELIEF systems, a person experiencing DISTRESS

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Changes over time and cultures could change this criteria

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Social norms

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Are people who don’t believe 9/11 happened mentally ill?

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No, we have a high tolerance to what crosses the line

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6
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Are you abnormal just because you’re sad?

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No, your DISTRESS could be normal (death in family)

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What are the lagal criteria for determining abnormality?

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HARM to ONESELF or OTHERS

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Is skydiving, smoking or suicide harm to oneself?

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Yes, suicide warrents intervention

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Is a person mentally ill if they murder someone?

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Not necessarily

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Does culture play a role in what constitutes abnormality?

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Yes. Ex: hallucinations in Native American religios practice, speaking in tongues in churches

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What must you do when something is different?

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You will likely react but it’s your responsibility to check yourself

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12
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Why is hysterical related to women

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Hyst (women), most common in women

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13
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Does abnormality change when culture changes

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Yes

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14
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What happens when culture norms shift quickly?

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Generaltional friction

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T/F culture is not related to what is abnormal

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False

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16
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What is the demonological model

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Mental illness is a product of DEMONIC possession

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17
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What is trephination

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Pirecing a whole in the BRAIN to let out the EVIL

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Who created the idea of humors

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Hippocrates

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19
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What are humors

A

body CHEMICALS that defines PERSONALITY

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Who was the firts person to think that there is a biological reason for psychological events

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Hippocrates

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21
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What does phlegmatic mean

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Slow, sluggish

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22
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What does melancholia mean

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Depressive

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23
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What does sanguine mean

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Cheerful

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24
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What does choleric mean

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quick-tempered

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25
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What were the early precursors to neurotransmitters and hormones

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Humors

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26
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What is dualism

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The idea that MIND and BODY are separate and can EFFECT each other

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What happened in the 15th-17th centruty

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Witch hunts and exorcism

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28
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What is the malleus maleficarum

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The “Witch’s Hammer”, a BOOK used to see if women were WITCHES

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29
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Why was the witch idea inflicted on women

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They were seen as WEAKER and more VULNERABLE to the devil

30
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What issues were in the Salem witch trails

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Conversion issues

31
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When and what were the first asylums

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15TH-17TH centuery, they put mentally ILL people on show for ENTERTAINMENT

32
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When was the reform movement

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18th-19th centruies

33
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Who lead the reform movement

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Pussin and Pinel

34
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Who created the idea of incurable wards

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Pussin

35
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What was the idea for the incurables ward

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MORAL THERAPY, treating pts HUMANLY, and CARING understanding

36
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What happened to moral therapy in the early 20th century

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Returned back to WARHOUSES and STATE HOSPITALS

37
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Did patients in state hospitals get treated

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No, they were LOCKED away and NOT treated

38
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Were treatments better or worse in state hospitals and was it out of scientific curiosity or treatment?

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WORSE and CURIOSITY

39
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What were the type of bad treatments in state hospitals

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LOBOTOMIES and elctroSHOCK

40
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What is the community mental health movement

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DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION, RELEASE pts and have COMMUNITY mental health centers

41
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With the development of new antipsychotic meds what did it create

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deinstitutionalization

42
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What was the aim of deinstitutionalization

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Make people SELF-SUFFICIENT

43
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What actually happened with deinstitutionalization

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Not enough FUNDING which lead to HOMELESSNESS

44
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Why did pts not have life skills when they were released

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They were in the hospitals for so long

45
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Why do schkiphrenic people smoke more

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It calmed them

46
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Where are we today related to mental illness

A

More ACCEPTING within LIMITS

47
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Do people sill rely on supernatural explanations for human behavior

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Yes

48
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Why do people not tell others of their mental illnesses

A

The STIGMA

49
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What are health insureers preference related to mental health

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LIMITED support, cheaper DRUGS over expensive THERAPY

50
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Why do many communities lack good mental health infrastructure

A

Shortage of mental health PROFESSIONALS because it does not PAY well

51
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What is the scientific method

A

Existing THEORY, research QUESTION, FALSIFIABLE HYPOTHESIS, TESTING hypothesis, CONCLUSIONS, REVISE theory

52
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What is an existing theory

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The current understanding of all the work done on it before

53
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How is a research question created

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From impoletness or conflicts with the existing theory

54
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What makes a hypothsis falsificable

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Taking the risk you may be wrong

55
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What is the down side of the scientific method

A

It is very slow

56
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Is open publication good

A

Yes

57
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What is the naturalistic method

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Observing in a natural encironment

58
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What is the correlational method

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See if there is a correlation between two or more variables, on a SCALE of -1-1

59
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What is the correlational if it’s a 0

A

no correlation

60
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What is the epidemiological method

A

Track the rates in a popluation over TIME or through different POPULATIONS

61
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What is the case study method

A

Study on individual in great deapth

62
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When do you do a case study

A

Rare DISORDERS or something NEW

63
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What is the kinship study

A

map out RELATIVE roles of HERDITY and ENVIROMENT

64
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What do kinship studies reley on

A

ADOPTIONS, FAMILIES, and TWIN studies

65
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What is the experiment method

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When you manipulate an INDEPENDENT variable to determine its effect on the DEPENDENT variable

66
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Can you infer causality with the experimenatl method?

A

Yes

67
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Is there control in an experimental method

A

Yes

68
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What should you look out for in the control group

A

Placebo effects

69
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What in internal validity

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Does the mainpulation cause the chages

70
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What is external calidity

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Can the results be generalized or was there to much control of the enviromentW

71
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What is construct validity

A

Do the theorectical constructs really account for the results, is the drug WORKING how you expect it to

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