Historical Views

Question 1

What is statistical infrequency? (Gen criteria)

Answer 1

how rare the behavior is

Question 2

What is the general criteria for abnormal psych?

Answer 2

Stat. infrequency, deviance from norms, dysfunction, distress, dangerousness

Question 3

What can deviance from social norms depend on?

Answer 3

Culture

Question 4

what is a question to be asked in dysfunction?

Answer 4

does it have a lasting impact on you

Question 5

What applies for dangerousness?

Answer 5

To ourselves or others

Question 6

What can’t you force someone to get?

Answer 6

Treatment unless they are a danger to themselves or others

Question 7

Who would you consult in the case of abnormal behavior?

Answer 7

Clinical psychologist, counselor, psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker

Question 8

What are the 3 historical models?

Answer 8

supernatural, biological, physiological

Question 9

What are the possible causes of supernatural?

Answer 9

Action of gods, spirits or demons, movement of stars or planets, witchcraft

Question 10

What are possible treatments for supernatural?

Answer 10

Exorcisms, beatings, torture, trephination (holes in skull)

Question 11

What was another name for Hippocrates?

Answer 11

Father of medicine

Question 12

What did Hippocrates think of as the postulated causes?

Answer 12

Brain pathology, head trauma, genetics

Question 13

What did Hippocrates think of the brain as?

Answer 13

The seat of consciousness

Question 14

What did Hippocrates classify?

Answer 14

Abnormal behavior patterns

Question 15

What is melancholia?

Answer 15

depression

Question 16

What is mania?

Answer 16

Panic disorder

Question 17

What is phrentis?

Answer 17

Schizophrenia

Question 18

What was the four humors theory of Hippocrates?

Answer 18

Blood (sanguine)
Yellow bile (choleric)
Black bile (melancholic)
Phlegm (phlegmatic)

Question 19

What did Hippocrates think about the four humors theory?

Answer 19

That what kind of humor you had impacted what sickness or temperament you would have

Question 20

What was Pasteur’s germ theory?

Answer 20

see medical problems caused by things you can’t even see

Question 21

What was general paresis?

Answer 21

Symptoms experienced were similar to those of schizophrenia, end stage of siphillus infection

Question 22

What did Philippe Pinel and Jean-Baptiste Pussin believe

Answer 22

we need to treat patients like people and treat them well

Question 23

What did Philippe Pinel and Jean do in asylums?

Answer 23

Treated patients humanely,
Unchained patients
Encouraged them to have social interaction
Small staff to patient ratio

Question 24

What movement did Dorthea Dix start?

Answer 24

Mental hygiene movement

Question 25

What did Mesmer do?

Answer 25

He did like the hypnosis thing and started the beginnings of hypnosis

Question 26

What were the psychological figureheads?

Answer 26

Jean-Martin Charcot, Josef Breuer, and Sigmund Freud

Question 27

What were the four important themes?

Answer 27

Biological discoveries Classification system Experimental psych research Emergence of psych causation viewpoint

Question 28

Who was Emil Kraepelin?

Answer 28

outlined the cause, course, and outcomes of various syndromes

Question 29

What were the psychodynamic principles?

Answer 29

results from unconscious conflicts behavior is determined by intrapsychic forces affected by childhood experiences

Question 30

What were the 4 major components of psychopathy?

Answer 30

Topographical model (consciousness) Structure Psychosexual development Defense mechanisms

Question 31

What were the elements in the topographic model of consciousness?

Answer 31

Conscious, preconscious, unconscious (superego, ego, id

Question 32

What is the id?

Answer 32

primitive part of mind that contains drive and hidden memories

Question 33

What is the ego

Answer 33

realistic part that mediates desires of id and superego

Question 34

What is the superego?

Answer 34

moral conscious, uphold highest values

Question 35

What are the stages of psychosexual development?

Answer 35

Oral (birth-11/2) Anal Phallic Latency Genital

Question 36

What involves the defense mechanisms of the mind?

Answer 36

Trying to reduce stress or anxiety Involve denial or distortion of reality Operate at an unconscious level Operate mechanically and involuntarily

Question 37

What are the defense mechanisms?

Answer 37

Repression Reaction formation Projection Displacement Sublimation

Question 37

What is repression?

Answer 37

blocking of unpleasant things

Question 38

What is reaction formation?

Answer 38

express opposite of true feelings

Question 39

What is projection?

Answer 39

displacing ones feelings onto another person

Question 40

what is displacement?

Answer 40

redirects emotional reaction from rightful recipient to another person or object

Question 41

What is sublimation?

Answer 41

redirects energy from unpleasant place into a more socially acceptable one

Question 42

What is insight therapy?

Answer 42

Attempt to bring unconscious material to consciousness

Question 43

What is interpretation?

Answer 43

Free association Dream analysis Resistance Transference

Question 44

What is free association?

Answer 44

One word or image may suggest another without any apparent connection

Question 45

What is dream analysis?

Answer 45

Looking at dreams to reveal unconscious motivations

Question 46

What is resistance in psych?

Answer 46

Any opposition to mental processes of healing

Question 47

What is transference?

Answer 47

redirecting feelings about something to something else