Chapter 1

Question 1

What is the definition of psychological disorders?

Answer 1

ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR patterns that involve a disturbance of PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING OR BEHAVIOR

Question 2

What do we assume if a person acts normal?

Answer 2

We assume they are okay

Question 3

What is the criteria for determining abnormality?

Answer 3

Social NORMS, false BELIEF systems, a person experiencing DISTRESS

Question 4

Changes over time and cultures could change this criteria

Answer 4

Social norms

Question 5

Are people who don’t believe 9/11 happened mentally ill?

Answer 5

No, we have a high tolerance to what crosses the line

Question 6

Are you abnormal just because you’re sad?

Answer 6

No, your DISTRESS could be normal (death in family)

Question 7

What are the lagal criteria for determining abnormality?

Answer 7

HARM to ONESELF or OTHERS

Question 8

Is skydiving, smoking or suicide harm to oneself?

Answer 8

Yes, suicide warrents intervention

Question 9

Is a person mentally ill if they murder someone?

Answer 9

Not necessarily

Question 10

Does culture play a role in what constitutes abnormality?

Answer 10

Yes. Ex: hallucinations in Native American religios practice, speaking in tongues in churches

Question 11

What must you do when something is different?

Answer 11

You will likely react but it’s your responsibility to check yourself

Question 12

Why is hysterical related to women

Answer 12

Hyst (women), most common in women

Question 13

Does abnormality change when culture changes

Answer 13

Yes

Question 14

What happens when culture norms shift quickly?

Answer 14

Generaltional friction

Question 15

T/F culture is not related to what is abnormal

Answer 15

False

Question 16

What is the demonological model

Answer 16

Mental illness is a product of DEMONIC possession

Question 17

What is trephination

Answer 17

Pirecing a whole in the BRAIN to let out the EVIL

Question 18

Who created the idea of humors

Answer 18

Hippocrates

Question 19

What are humors

Answer 19

body CHEMICALS that defines PERSONALITY

Question 20

Who was the firts person to think that there is a biological reason for psychological events

Answer 20

Hippocrates

Question 21

What does phlegmatic mean

Answer 21

Slow, sluggish

Question 22

What does melancholia mean

Answer 22

Depressive

Question 23

What does sanguine mean

Answer 23

Cheerful

Question 24

What does choleric mean

Answer 24

quick-tempered

Question 25

What were the early precursors to neurotransmitters and hormones

Answer 25

Humors

Question 26

What is dualism

Answer 26

The idea that MIND and BODY are separate and can EFFECT each other

Question 27

What happened in the 15th-17th centruty

Answer 27

Witch hunts and exorcism

Question 28

What is the malleus maleficarum

Answer 28

The "Witch's Hammer", a BOOK used to see if women were WITCHES

Question 29

Why was the witch idea inflicted on women

Answer 29

They were seen as WEAKER and more VULNERABLE to the devil

Question 30

What issues were in the Salem witch trails

Answer 30

Conversion issues

Question 31

When and what were the first asylums

Answer 31

15TH-17TH centuery, they put mentally ILL people on show for ENTERTAINMENT

Question 32

When was the reform movement

Answer 32

18th-19th centruies

Question 33

Who lead the reform movement

Answer 33

Pussin and Pinel

Question 34

Who created the idea of incurable wards

Answer 34

Pussin

Question 35

What was the idea for the incurables ward

Answer 35

MORAL THERAPY, treating pts HUMANLY, and CARING understanding

Question 36

What happened to moral therapy in the early 20th century

Answer 36

Returned back to WARHOUSES and STATE HOSPITALS

Question 37

Did patients in state hospitals get treated

Answer 37

No, they were LOCKED away and NOT treated

Question 38

Were treatments better or worse in state hospitals and was it out of scientific curiosity or treatment?

Answer 38

WORSE and CURIOSITY

Question 39

What were the type of bad treatments in state hospitals

Answer 39

LOBOTOMIES and elctroSHOCK

Question 40

What is the community mental health movement

Answer 40

DEINSTITUTIONALIZATION, RELEASE pts and have COMMUNITY mental health centers

Question 41

With the development of new antipsychotic meds what did it create

Answer 41

deinstitutionalization

Question 42

What was the aim of deinstitutionalization

Answer 42

Make people SELF-SUFFICIENT

Question 43

What actually happened with deinstitutionalization

Answer 43

Not enough FUNDING which lead to HOMELESSNESS

Question 44

Why did pts not have life skills when they were released

Answer 44

They were in the hospitals for so long

Question 45

Why do schkiphrenic people smoke more

Answer 45

It calmed them

Question 46

Where are we today related to mental illness

Answer 46

More ACCEPTING within LIMITS

Question 47

Do people sill rely on supernatural explanations for human behavior

Answer 47

Yes

Question 48

Why do people not tell others of their mental illnesses

Answer 48

The STIGMA

Question 49

What are health insureers preference related to mental health

Answer 49

LIMITED support, cheaper DRUGS over expensive THERAPY

Question 50

Why do many communities lack good mental health infrastructure

Answer 50

Shortage of mental health PROFESSIONALS because it does not PAY well

Question 51

What is the scientific method

Answer 51

Existing THEORY, research QUESTION, FALSIFIABLE HYPOTHESIS, TESTING hypothesis, CONCLUSIONS, REVISE theory

Question 52

What is an existing theory

Answer 52

The current understanding of all the work done on it before

Question 53

How is a research question created

Answer 53

From impoletness or conflicts with the existing theory

Question 54

What makes a hypothsis falsificable

Answer 54

Taking the risk you may be wrong

Question 55

What is the down side of the scientific method

Answer 55

It is very slow

Question 56

Is open publication good

Answer 56

Yes

Question 57

What is the naturalistic method

Answer 57

Observing in a natural encironment

Question 58

What is the correlational method

Answer 58

See if there is a correlation between two or more variables, on a SCALE of -1-1

Question 59

What is the correlational if it's a 0

Answer 59

no correlation

Question 60

What is the epidemiological method

Answer 60

Track the rates in a popluation over TIME or through different POPULATIONS

Question 61

What is the case study method

Answer 61

Study on individual in great deapth

Question 62

When do you do a case study

Answer 62

Rare DISORDERS or something NEW

Question 63

What is the kinship study

Answer 63

map out RELATIVE roles of HERDITY and ENVIROMENT

Question 64

What do kinship studies reley on

Answer 64

ADOPTIONS, FAMILIES, and TWIN studies

Question 65

What is the experiment method

Answer 65

When you manipulate an INDEPENDENT variable to determine its effect on the DEPENDENT variable

Question 66

Can you infer causality with the experimenatl method?

Answer 66

Yes

Question 67

Is there control in an experimental method

Answer 67

Yes

Question 68

What should you look out for in the control group

Answer 68

Placebo effects

Question 69

What in internal validity

Answer 69

Does the mainpulation cause the chages

Question 70

What is external calidity

Answer 70

Can the results be generalized or was there to much control of the enviromentW

Question 71

What is construct validity

Answer 71

Do the theorectical constructs really account for the results, is the drug WORKING how you expect it to