Chapter 1

Question 1

Mental disorder

Answer 1

-a group of emotional, cognitive, and behaivoral symptoms that cause distress or significant problems

Question 2

Abnormal psychology

Answer 2

The scientific study of problematic feelings, thoughts, and behaivors, associated with mental disorders

Question 3

Maladaptive behaivor

Answer 3

One that interferes with a person’s life , including ability to care for oneself, have good relationships with others, and function well at school and work

Question 4

Psychopathologists

Answer 4

Study mental problems, to see how disorders develop and continue and how they can be prevented or treated

Question 5

Mass madness

Answer 5

Groups of individuals would be afflicted at the same time with the same disorder or abnormal behaivors

Question 6

Asylums

Answer 6

Places set aside for people with mental disorders

Question 7

Mental hygiene

Answer 7

A movement that resulted from Beer’s book, a mind that found itself, which was basically a mental health reform movement in the United States

Question 8

Public health model

Answer 8

Focuses on promoting good health and good health practices to avert disease.

Question 9

Primary prevention

Answer 9

Targeting large groups f people,sometimes the entire public, who have not yet developed a mental disorder.

Question 10

Secondary prevention

Answer 10

Addressing emerging problems while they are still manageable and before they become resistant to intervention

Question 11

Tertiary prevention

Answer 11

Reducing the severity, duration and negative effects of a mental disorder after it has occured

Question 12

Stigma

Answer 12

-characterization by others of disgrace or reproach based on individual characteristics

Question 13

Renaissance

Answer 13

• focused on bodily functioning and medical treatments

- asylums instituted

Question 14

Somatagenic perspective

Answer 14

Emphasizing physical bodily causes of behaivor

Question 15

Early Greek and Roman thought on mental disorders

Answer 15

• direct result of brain disorders+ dysfunctions
• special diets, rest, abstinence from alcohol, regular exercise and celibacy used to treat them
• created therapeutic environments with these aspects

Question 16

Implications of dimensional perspective

Answer 16

• research on emotions, thoughts, and behaivors, is relevant to all of us
• people differ only in their degree of symptoms

Question 17

Prevention perspective

Answer 17

Promoting mental health and thwarting mental disorder through education, ear;y treatment, and public health measures

Question 18

Prevention perspective

Answer 18

Promoting mental health and thwarting mental disorder through education, ear;y treatment, and public health measures

Question 19

Consumer perspective

Answer 19

Becoming informed consumer of scientific information on mental health

Question 20

Consumer perspective

Answer 20

Becoming informed consumer of scientific information on mental health

Question 21

Multicultural psychology

Answer 21

Refers to examining the effect of culture on the way people think, feel, and act.

Question 22

Multicultural psychology

Answer 22

Refers to examining the effect of culture on the way people think, feel, and act.

Question 23

Structural stigma

Answer 23

When gov, or other institutional policies negatively affects opertunities for people who may be seen as threatening, dangerous, or less deserving of support

Question 24

Public stigma

Answer 24

The general disgrace the public confers on people with mental disorder that can result in predujdice, stereotyping, and discrimination

Question 25

Self-stigma

Answer 25

Refers to the disgrace people assign themselves because of public stigma

Question 26

Self-stigma

Answer 26

Refers to the disgrace people assign themselves because of public stigma

Question 27

2 ways stigma can be fought

Answer 27

1. Education

2. Promoting personal contact