History & Research Methods

Question 1

The Chinese, Egyptians, Hebrews, and Greeks believed…

Answer 1

Possession by good vs. evil spirits

Question 2

Former treatment methods for evil spirits were?

Answer 2

1. Exorcisms
2. prayers
3. Noise Making
4. Potions

Question 3

Hippocrates believed….

Answer 3

Mental illness was not caused by evil spirits. It was caused by brain pathology

Question 4

The Middle Ages emphasized the importances of ______ and ____________ instead of _______ to explain abnormality

Answer 4

ritual, superstition, science

Question 5

Lycanthropy

Answer 5

possession by wolves

Question 6

Define Asylums (madhouses)

Answer 6

sanctuaries or places of refuge for the care of the mentally ill

Entertainment for the public like a zoo

Question 7

What did asylums do?

Answer 7

removed individuals who could no longer care for themselves from society

Question 8

What did Dorothy Dix do?

Answer 8

advocate for the establishment of more humane public psychiatric hospitals

Question 9

Define deinstitutionalization

Answer 9

moving people out of psychiatric hospitals and back into the community with little to no outpatient care.

Question 10

Rational, or good intentions. behind deinstitutionalization…

Answer 10

The hospitals were inhumane

Question 11

How were patients effected by deinstitutionalization?

Answer 11

Many homeless or in prison where it’s not set up to treat mental health

Question 12

Freud

Answer 12

offered the psychoanalytic perspective & psychoanalysis

talked about the unconscious mind

Question 13

The first link between psychopathology and the brain (biology)

Answer 13

paresis (insanity caused by syphilis)

Question 14

The behavioral perspective in comprised of which 4 men?

Answer 14

1. Wundt
2. James
3. Pavlov: classical conditioning
4. Watson: behaviorism

Question 15

Case study

Answer 15

Bias & generalizability

Question 16

Correlational Design

Answer 16

The relationship between 2 variables without manipulation

can be positive or negative

Question 17

Observational Design

Answer 17

the difference in variables between pre-existing groups (comparing)

nothing about causality

Question 18

Experimental research

Answer 18

Compare responses between Variable group & Control group

Question 19

Experimental psychopathology

Answer 19

conclude causality
scientists exhibit control

Question 20

Confidence is increased if the _______ group shows significant ___________ than the _________ group. (Efficacy of Therapy)

Answer 20

Treated, improvement, untreated

Question 21

Random Assignment

Answer 21

equality amongst participants on who receives treatment or not

Question 22

Single-Case ABAB Design

Answer 22

It’s a pattern

Question 23

Positive Correlation

Answer 23

As one goes up, the other also goes up

Ex: The more hours you work, the larger the paycheck

Question 24

Negative Correlation

Answer 24

As one goes up, the other goes down

Ex: The more absences you have, the more your grades drop

Question 25

Scientific problem with analogue studies

Answer 25

difficulty of generalizing to the naturally occurring phenomenon