Week 1 - Intro

Question 1

Psychopathology

Answer 1

then scientific study of mental disorders (thinking, feeling, behaving)

Question 2

Signs Vs Symptoms

Answer 2

signs - objective
symptoms - subjective

Question 3

4 results of abnormality

Answer 3

1. Loss of freedom
2. loss of relationships
3. loss of connection with self
4. personal disstress

Question 4

Stigma

Answer 4

negative attitudes and beliefs that cause general public to avoid others

Question 5

3 Historical views

Answer 5

supernatural, somatogenic (biological), and psychogenic (experiences)

Question 6

Historical - supernatural

Answer 6

trephination - cut hole into skull
confess sins and repent

Question 7

Pythagoras

Answer 7

-thought human behavior was related to internal processes
- the brain structure is related to mental illness

Question 8

Hippocrates

Answer 8

-thought illnesses were caused by too much fluid in the body (bile, blood)
-treatment = blood letting

Question 9

Galen

Answer 9

Blood with spirits cause mental illness
physical trauma causes mental illness
hysteria = wandering uterus in women

Question 10

the Middle Ages with witches

Answer 10

Malleus Meleficarum argued pathology was caused by witches

Question 11

The renaissance

Answer 11

Leonarda da Vinci diagrammed the body

Descartes suggested behavior was based on mechanical principles

Question 12

Function of the brain

Answer 12

-gray matter consists of cell bodies and dendrites (processing)
-White matter is axon and insulator (transmits signals)
-bumps called gyri
-grooves between gyri called sulci

Question 13

4 lobes of brain

Answer 13

frontal, parietal, temporal, occipital

Question 14

Broca Vs Wernicke

Answer 14

broca - language processing
Wernickes - language understanding

Question 15

3 major themes

Answer 15

• behavioral and experimental perspective - personal experiences, symptoms, and signs
• neuroscience - structure and function of the brain
• evolutionary - being adaptive

Question 16

biopsychosocial

Answer 16

• introduced by George Engel
  3 factors - biological,psychological, and social

Question 17

Biological Treatments

Answer 17

psychoactive drugs, electroconvulsive therapy, surgery

Question 18

Psychodynamics

Answer 18

-By Freud
- cortical areas repress lower brain functioning
-uses free association
-repressed emotions

Question 19

existential humanistic therapy

Answer 19

emphasis on growth and positive psychology
person centered therapy
emotion focused therapy
mindfulness

Question 20

behaviorism
classical vs operant

Answer 20

classical - learn new involuntary responses to stimuli and replace maladaptive ones
operant - reinforce desired behaviors remove reinforcement for maladaptive ones

Question 21

cognitive/behavioral therapy

Answer 21

change negative views on self, world and future