Chapter 1

Question 1

What are the 4 D’s of Abnormality?

Answer 1

Distress, Deviance, Dysfunction, Dangerousness

Question 2

What is a mental disorder?

Answer 2

Psychological symptoms that reflect underlying psychological dysfunction of disability and not related to stress.

Question 3

Mental Illness

Answer 3

A mental health condition that negatively affects a persons emotions, thinking, behavior, relationships, and overall functioning.

Question 4

Psycopathology

Answer 4

The study of the symptoms, causes, and treatment of disorders

Question 5

Anosgnosia

Answer 5

The inability to recognize one’s mental condition

Question 6

Psychiatric Epidemiology

Answer 6

The study of frequency of occurrence of mental health disorders

Question 7

Prevalence

Answer 7

The percentage of people that have a disorder in a given time

Question 8

Social Stigma

Answer 8

A negative societal belief about a group that is believed to be different from other groups

Question 9

Lifetime Prevalence

Answer 9

The rate of existence of the disorder during any part of a person’s lifetime

Question 10

Self Stigma

Answer 10

When social stigma becomes so intense that it makes the person dislike themselves/ have negative thoughts about themselves.

Question 11

Supernatural

Answer 11

Developing from origins beyond the visible observable universe.

Question 12

Somatogenic

Answer 12

Developing from physical/ bodily origins.

Question 13

Psychogenic

Answer 13

Developing from psychological origins.

Question 14

Trephining

Answer 14

Involved drilling a hole in the skull to let out the evil spirits.

Question 15

Plagues and Famine

Answer 15

Prevalent in the Middle Ages

Question 16

Witches

Answer 16

The mentally ill, especially women, began to be persecuted as witches who were possessed.