Chapter 1: Abnormal Behavior in Historical Context

Question 1

Psychological Disorder

Answer 1

A psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected.

Question 2

Psychological Dysfunction

Answer 2

Breakdown in Cognitive, Emotional, or Behavioral Functioning.

Question 3

Atypical or not culturally expected

Answer 3

Something is considered abnormal because it occurs infrequently; it deviates from the average.

Question 4

Psychopathology

Answer 4

Scientific study of psychological disorders.

Question 5

Studying psychological disorders focuses on:

Answer 5

Clinical Description
Etiology
Treatment and Outcome

Question 6

“Presents”

Answer 6

Traditional shorthand way of indicating why people come to the clinic

Question 7

Clinical Description

Answer 7

Unique combination of behaviors, thoughts, and feelings that make up a specific disorder.

Question 8

Prevalence

Answer 8

Population as a whole

Question 9

Incidence

Answer 9

Quantity of new cases occurring during a given period.

Question 10

Chronic course

Answer 10

Lasts a long time

Question 11

Episodic course

Answer 11

Recover within few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder.

Question 12

Time-limited course

Answer 12

Disorder will improve without treatment in a relatively short period of time.

Question 13

Acute onset

Answer 13

Begins suddenly.

Question 14

Insidious onset

Answer 14

Develop gradually over an extended period.

Question 15

Good prognosis

Answer 15

Probably recover

Question 16

Guarded prognosis

Answer 16

Outcome doesn’t look good.

Question 17

Etiology

Answer 17

Study of origins that includes biological, psychological and social dimensions.

Question 18

Exorcism

Answer 18

Various religious rituals were performed to rid the victim of evil spirits.

Question 19

Mass Hysteria

Answer 19

Large-scale outbreaks of bizarre behavior.`

Emotional Contagion

Question 20

Who introduced the four bodily fluids or humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm.

Answer 20

Hippocrates

Question 21

Blood:Heart = Black Bile:?

Answer 21

Spleen

Question 22

Yellow Bile:Liver = ?:Brain

Answer 22

Phlegm

Question 23

Melancholic/Black Bile

Answer 23

Depressive

Question 24

Sanguine/Blood

Answer 24

Cheerful and Optimistic

Question 25

Choleric/ Yellow Bile

Answer 25

Hot tempered

Question 26

Phlegmatic/Brain

Answer 26

Apathy and sluggishness; calm under stress

Question 27

Hysteria

Answer 27

Wandering Uterus

Question 28

One of the founding fathers in modern psychiatry (1856-1926)

Answer 28

Emil Kraeplin

Question 29

What kind of asylums in the 16th century is?

Answer 29

More like prisons than hospitals.

Question 30

Dorothea Dix

Answer 30

Campaigned endlessly for reform in the “treatment of insanity”.