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Abnormal Week 1 Flashcards

1
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what is the definition of psychology?

A

The scientific study of behaviour and cognitive processes

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2
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a field concerned with the nature and development of abnormal (ABC):

  • affect
  • behaviors
  • cognitions
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psychopathology

pathos = suffering

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3
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The 5 characteristics of abnormal behaviour are:

A 
statistical infrequency
violation of norms
personal suffering
disability or dysfunction
unexpectedness
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4
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what is one things that defines abnormal behaviour in and of itself?

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nothing, there are several characteristics together that begin to define abnormality

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5
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most primary mental health care is delivered by _____:

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general practitioners

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______: typically have a Ph.D. or Psy.D. degree (4-7yrs grad work)

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clinical psychologists

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7
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______: hold an MD degree and have postgraduate training in which they receive supervision in the practice of diagnosing and psychotherapy

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Psychiatrists

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8
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name the time period: 
mental disorders (or behaviors seemingly outside of individual control) were believed to be caused by external, supernatural, entities 
- if you do bad things god will punish you, bad things will happen
A

Ancient times

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9
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the doctrine that an evil being (ex: devil) may dwell within a person and control them

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demonology

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10
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_______ was often used as treatment for demonology

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exorcisim

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11
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________ was the surgical opening in a living skull by an instrument

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trepanning

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12
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trepanning was used by___________ and introduced to Americas from ______

A

stone age or Neolithic cave dwellers

Siberia

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13
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________ separated medicine from religion, magic and superstition; rejected belief god sent physical diseases and mental disturbances as punishment but insisted they had natural causes

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Hippocrates

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______ was one of earliest proponents of somatogensis

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Hippocrates

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_____: mental disorders caused by deviant soma functioning and disturbs thought or action

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somatogensis

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16
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______: mental disorders originate from psychological malfunctions

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psychogenesis

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17
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Hippocrates mental classifications
1.
2.
3.

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  1. mania
  2. melancholia
  3. phrenitis (brain fever)
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18
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describe Hippocrates’ humoral physiology

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thought mental health was dependent on balance of four bodily humours

  • phlegm
  • blood
  • yellow bile
  • black bile
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19
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excess of Phlegm resulted in

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sluggish, grumpy

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20
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excess of blood resulted in

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warm, affectionate, sensual

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21
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excess yellow bile resulted in

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irritable, angry

22
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excess in black bile resulted in

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melancholia, moping

23
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name the time period:

  • churches gained influence
  • Christian monasteries replaced physicians for mental disorder healers and physicians
  • monks care for sick and touched them with relics
A

the dark ages and demonology

24
Q

Pope_______ exhorted European clergy to leave no stone unturned when searching for witches

A

Pope innocent VIII

25
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The malleus maleficarum is ____

A

a manual used to guide witch hunters

26
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the mentally ill were thought to be witches - T/F?

A

Both, but many “witches” were not mentally ill at all, just seemed insane due t torture/abuse during interrogations

27
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______ were converted into asylums since there were used to previously hold many patients

A

leprosariums

28
Q

a descriptive word for a place or scene of wild uproar and confusion:________
why?

A

bedlam

- St. Mary of Bethlehem devoted to mentally ill had horrible conditions; became tourist attraction

29
Q

_____________ considered father of American psychiatry

A

Benjamin rush

30
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treatments by Benjamin rush

A

draining blood, frightening

31
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_______ primary figure for humanitarian treatment of mentally ill in asylums
thought disorder were due to personal events and imbalance of passions (anger, disgust, self-hatred ect)

A

Philippe pinel

32
Q

_______ argued that development of mental ill services in Canada, British NA

A

Sussman

33
Q

Explain Dorthea Dix contributions

A

tried to resurrect moral treatment after shocked from conditions
- campaigned for multiple hospitals but moral treatment didn’t last long as the state hospitals lacked staff and space and physicians began allocating all money to labs as they focused on biological causes for mental illnesses

34
Q

_______ was admitted to women’s lunatic asylum on new York’s Blackwell’s island.
why?

A

Nellie Bly
faked insanity, once in acted normal but took her 10 days to get out. Doctors found her normal behaviour evidence of metal illness

35
Q

Explain David Rosenhan’s study

A

defining insanity
8 participants complained of hearing voices - admitted to mental hospitals with mission to get discharged once actually in
- got schizophrenia diagnosis
- took 3 weeks to get out

36
Q

what did David Rosenhan’s study lead to ?

A

modification of the DSMII

37
Q

the goal of _____ is to shift care from psychiatric hospitals to the community
- has been going on for more than 40 yrs in Canada

A

deinstitutionalization

38
Q

_____: the process of providing more spots in psychiatric units in general hospitals for patients rather than in psychiatric hospitals

A

transinstitutionalization

39
Q

______ the primary reason why only 1/3 Canadians who suffer from depression seek help

A

stigma

40
Q

_______: the tendency to internalize mental health stigma and see oneself in more negative terms as a result of experiencing a psychological problem

A

self-stigma

41
Q

_______: the accurate knowledge that a person develops about mental illness and its causes and treatment

A

mental health literacy

42
Q

mental illness in Canada:

_____ people will have a mental disorder in their lifetime

A

1 in 3 people

43
Q

mental illness in Canada: _______ people will have an addiction at some point

A

1 in 5

44
Q

women or men more common?

  • mood or anxiety disorder
  • substance abuse
  • eating attitudes and agoraphobia (unsafe envoi, no way to escape)
A

mood or anxiety - women
substance - men
eating / agoraphobia - women

45
Q

provinces with most happiness and least distress?

A

newfoundland and Labrador and PEI

46
Q

what province reported high self-esteem and mastery but last happiness and most distress?

A

Quebec

47
Q

why the poor are more at risk for diagnosable mental disorder , less access

A
  • rural living
  • less means
  • less help seeking
48
Q

_____: the phenomenon that immigrants have comparatively lower rates of health problems than Canadian-born members of the population (adults)

A

the healthy immigrant effect

- children who were young when immigrated here are closer to Canadian-born levels

49
Q

some consequences of deinstitutionalization

A 
homelessness
incarceration
burden on caregivers
limited access
wait times
50
Q

what do community psychologists do

A

instead of waiting for people to initiate contact, they go out and seek problems/ potential problems focusing on prevention or reduction of problems

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