Week 1

Question 1

Benjamin Rush

Answer 1

Encouraged more human treatment

Question 2

Kraepelin

Answer 2

compendium der psychiatrie –> precursor to DSM
Specific types of mental disorder identified

Question 3

Dix

Answer 3

tried to get people out of harsh asylum conditions

Question 4

pinel

Answer 4

thought about mental health that was different of the time
tried to free people from the iron chains that they were in because of the mental health issues
people should not be afraid of mental health issues and people are people
patients treated with kindness, as sick people would be

Question 5

William Tuke

Answer 5

based on Quaker principals
provided humane mental health treatment

Question 6

Mesmure

Answer 6

Planets affected a universal magnetic fluid in the body the distribution of this fluid determined health or disease
Undetectable fluid- animal magnetism blocked
mesmerism and hypnosis
charlatan
made people start thinking about treatments for things like hysteria

Question 7

Witmer

Answer 7

first american psychological clinic

Question 8

Wundt

Answer 8

First experimental psychological laboratory

Question 9

What is a prevalence rate?

Answer 9

number of active cases in population during any given period of time

Question 10

Comorbidity

Answer 10

number of problems are happening at the same time for an individual

Question 11

Incidence rate

Answer 11

the number of new cases of a problem in population over a given period of time

Question 12

Lifetime prevalance

Answer 12

over the course of the lifetime that is reported by that person

Question 13

What are the most frequently occurring disorders

Answer 13

Anxiety and mood disorders

Question 14

what are the limitations of case studies and questionnaire studies

Answer 14

Case studies have low generalizability while questionnaire studies may be inaccurate and there is no room to ask more questions

Question 15

what is a representative sample

Answer 15

Small group selected in such a way as to be representative of the larger group from which it is drawn

Question 16

what is a criterion group

Answer 16

group of subjects who exhibit the disorder under study

Question 17

what do correlation studies tell you and what don’t they tell you

Answer 17

correlation studies tell you how different variables interact with each other and we are able to identify factors that appear to be associated with different conditions

they can not tell you that one variable causes the other

Question 18

what is an effect size

Answer 18

a stable measure used to compare across studies

Question 19

what is a meta analysis

Answer 19

calculates effect sizes and then combines them for all studies included in analysis
each study is equivalent to one individual participant