Chapter 15

Question 1

What is another word for Psychopathology?

Answer 1

Mental illness

Question 2

View of mental illness in which odd behavior, hearing voices, or talking to oneself was attributed to evil spirits infesting the body – witch hunts, exorcisms

Answer 2

Demonic model

Question 3

Perception that regarded mental illness as due to a physical disorder requiring medical treatment
Began housing people in asylums – but they were often overcrowded and understaffed
Treatments were no better than before (bloodletting and snake pits)

Answer 3

medical model

Question 4

Approach to mental illness calling for dignity, kindness, and respect for those with mental illness – still no effective treatments

Answer 4

Moral treatment

Question 5

What anxiety disorder is this describing:
Continual feelings of worry, anxiety, physical tension, and irritability across many areas of life functioning
Prevalence: About 3% of the population, with approx. 1/3 developing it after major stressor or life change

Answer 5

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Question 6

Intense fear of an object or situation that’s greatly out of proportion to its actual threat

Answer 6

Phobia

Question 7

PTSD

Answer 7

Emotional disturbance after experiencing or witnessing a severely stressful event

Question 8

Condition marked by repeated and lengthy (at least one hour per day) immersion in obsessions, compulsions, or both

Answer 8

OCD