Chapter 1: Past and Present

Question 1

abnormal psychology

Answer 1

scientific study of abnormal behavior

Question 2

the 4 d’s of abnormal psychology

Answer 2

deviance, distress, dysfunction, danger

Question 3

deviance can be explained as…

Answer 3

reactions from specific circumstances that are not socially excepted. It often depends on the circumstance

Question 4

distress

Answer 4

person needs to be distressed by the symptoms they have

Question 5

dysfunction would be explained by…

Answer 5

preventing person from carrying out daily activities that society views as normal
However, in certain situations, fasting or sacrificing parts of their daily life can be seen as heroic and honorable

Question 6

danger can be explained by…

Answer 6

this is the exception not the rule
people hardly ever do harm to themselves or other
if they are dangerous, they are careless and hostile

Question 7

treatment goals

Answer 7

to change abnormal behavior to normal behavior

Question 8

3 essential features of treatments

Answer 8

sufferer, healer (trained and socially accepted), series of contacts (between sufferer and healer)

Question 9

clinical treatment to this day is still surrounded by…

Answer 9

conflict and confusion because of the many disparities surrounding mental illnesses

Question 10

back in the day, what was abnormal behavior attributed to?

Answer 10

evil spirits

Question 11

trephination

Answer 11

holed carved into skull to relieve pressure or a form of exorcism

Question 12

500 B.C.E- 500 C.E.

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The greeks and romans views and treatments

Question 13

roman/greek treatments

Answer 13

trying to rebalance or restore humans with blood letting

Question 14

4 humors

Answer 14

black bile, yellow bile, phlegm, blood

Question 15

what did the greeks/romans believe about the 4 humors?

Answer 15

that each corresponded to a particular termparent elements

Question 16

black bile

Answer 16

melancholy

Question 17

yellow bile

Answer 17

anger/mania

Question 18

phlegm

Answer 18

thoughtfulness

Question 19

blood

Answer 19

bravery

Question 20

when did demonology return

Answer 20

middle ages

Question 21

mass hysteria/madness was prevalent in…

Answer 21

the middle ages when belief in demonology started to return

ex: lycanthrophy and tarantism

Question 22

lycanthrophy

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ppl thought they were wolves and acted as such

Question 23

tarantism

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thought to be due to a tarantula bite and gives the impulse to dance

Question 24

Renaissance and Rise of Asylums

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1400-1700 C.E.

Question 25

beginning of asylums and downfall

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started off helping with good intentions but overcrowding happened and than they started chaining to walls and treating badly

Question 26

19th century Reform and moral treatment

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Pinel (France) and Tuke (England), Rush and Dix advocated for moral treatment

Question 27

Early 20th century: Dual perspectives

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Somatogenic and psychogenic perspectives

Question 28

somatogenic perspectives

Answer 28

physical was the cause of psychological problems

Question 29

emil Kraepelin gave rise to…

Answer 29

the belief in the somatogenic perspective. Bouncing off of Hippocrates, he dropped a textbook arguing that physical factors such as fatigue where the cause of mental dysfunctions, and that they could be treated

Question 30

psychogenic perspective

Answer 30

emotional or psychological factors are the cause of mental disorders
hypnotism, hysteria, freud

Question 31

Current trends

Answer 31

outpatient therapy is the mode for severe as well as moderate mental disorders
Focuses on positive psychology and prevention (poverty, violence, teen moms, children) and the rise of multicultural psychologists

Question 32

1950s researched discovered

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a number of new psychotropic medications

Question 33

before the 1950s

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attributed all mental disorders to psychological problems, thus, outpatient care was strictly psychocare

Question 34

outpatient care is now the

Answer 34

primary mode of treatment

Question 35

prevention movement

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promoted positive psych and happiness by trying to reduce violence and poverty and include multicultural psychologists