History

Question 1

4 major goals of the scientific study of abnormal behavior

Answer 1

Describe, predict, explain, change

Question 2

Which profession is focused on change; which profession is focused on all 4 study goals?

Answer 2

Clinicians; research scientists

Question 3

4 D’s of determining abnormality of behavior

Answer 3

1. Deviance (behavior and emotion)
2. Distress (to the individual)
3. Dysfunction (interference with daily life)
4. Danger (risk to self and others)

Question 4

What is trepanning?

Answer 4

Drilling a hole in the side of someone’s heads in hopes of letting the evil spirit out

Question 5

What are the 4 humors?

Answer 5

Black bile, yellow bile, blood and phlegm

Question 6

What is purging?

Answer 6

Medical bleeding to rid the body of blood to balance out the 4 humors. An imbalance was believed to be the cause of mental illness

Question 7

What is animal magnetism?

Answer 7

The idea that people’s thoughts can be controlled by cosmic forces and the forces can be altered

Question 8

What is hydrotherapy?

Answer 8

Putting agitated patients in a warm bath until they calm down

Question 9

What is the icepick lobotomy?

Answer 9

Walter Friedman’s take on the frontal lobotomy. Insert an icepick in the brain through the eye socket, often left people in vegetative states. All mental hospitals started doing it