Psychopathology
Exam 1 Questions and
Answers
User [Date] [Course title]
,Describe how a psychological disorder is defined/understood and what is psychopathology? - Correct
Answer: Dysfunction in psychological, biological or developmental processes that causes personal
distress and is Atypical or not a culturally expected response.
The science of psychopathology is done by mental health professionals that are united in the scientist-
practitioner framework.
How do you go about giving a clinical description of a client - understand each term? - Correct Answer:
Begins with presenting the problem
clinical description
describe prevalence and incidence of disorders
describe onset of symptoms
state specifiers (course of disorders, severity)
Prognosis
What were the initial supernatural theories of abnormal behavior ? - Correct Answer: People
increasingly turned to magic and sorcery to solve their problems. People assumed that individuals
possessed by evil spirits were responsible for misfortune of townspeople. Treatments included
exorcism, shaving a cross on victims head. Snake pits were also used to scare a spirit out of someone.
Movement of moon and stars led to definition of lunatic.
Describe the varying practices of psychopathology. - Correct Answer: Clinical & counseling psychologists
either a Ph.D. or Psy.D.
Psychiatrist: M.D.
MFT & mental health counselors
Mass Hysteria - Correct Answer: demonstrates the phenomenon of emotion contagion in which the
experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us.
Paracelus suggested that.. - Correct Answer: movements of the sun and stars had profound effects on
people's psychological functioning. Said that the gravitational effect of the moon on bodily fluids could
be a possible cause for mental disorders. This theory inspired the word LUNATIC. Still common with
followers of astrology.
, What were the initial theories of the biological tradition?(e.g., Grey, Hippocrates....using the information
on your worksheet can be helpful to review and guide you on where to look in text)? Be able to correctly
place the theories of supernatural from the biological traditions. - Correct Answer: Greek physician,
Hippocrates, thought to be the father of modern medicine.
Humeral theory of medicine
Somatoform disorders
John P.Grey
Erin Kraeplin
Hippocrates - Correct Answer: Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of modern
medicine. He considered the brain to be the seat of wisdom, consciousness, intelligence, and emotion.
He believed all psychological disorders could be treated. Disorders involving these would then be
logically located in the brain. Also recognized the importance of interpersonal interactions on
psychology.
Hippocratic-Galenic approach and the Humoral Theory of Disorders. - Correct Answer: four bodily fluids
or humors:
- blood (heart), sanguine - cheerful and optimistic
- black bile (spleen) melancholic - depression
- yellow bile (liver) phlegmatic personality - sluggish, apathetic, calm
- phlegm (brain) choleric - hot tempered
first example of associating psychological disorders with chemical imbalance.
Somatoform disorders - Correct Answer: physical symptoms appear to be the result of a medical
problem for which no physical cause can be found.
hysteron (hysteria) - greek for uterus, assumed this only happened in women.
John P. Grey - Correct Answer: Causes of insanity were always physical. Therefore mentally ill patients
should be treated as physically ill. Because of this, conditions in hospitals greatly improved in order to
help treat these disorders.
Exam 1 Questions and
Answers
User [Date] [Course title]
,Describe how a psychological disorder is defined/understood and what is psychopathology? - Correct
Answer: Dysfunction in psychological, biological or developmental processes that causes personal
distress and is Atypical or not a culturally expected response.
The science of psychopathology is done by mental health professionals that are united in the scientist-
practitioner framework.
How do you go about giving a clinical description of a client - understand each term? - Correct Answer:
Begins with presenting the problem
clinical description
describe prevalence and incidence of disorders
describe onset of symptoms
state specifiers (course of disorders, severity)
Prognosis
What were the initial supernatural theories of abnormal behavior ? - Correct Answer: People
increasingly turned to magic and sorcery to solve their problems. People assumed that individuals
possessed by evil spirits were responsible for misfortune of townspeople. Treatments included
exorcism, shaving a cross on victims head. Snake pits were also used to scare a spirit out of someone.
Movement of moon and stars led to definition of lunatic.
Describe the varying practices of psychopathology. - Correct Answer: Clinical & counseling psychologists
either a Ph.D. or Psy.D.
Psychiatrist: M.D.
MFT & mental health counselors
Mass Hysteria - Correct Answer: demonstrates the phenomenon of emotion contagion in which the
experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us.
Paracelus suggested that.. - Correct Answer: movements of the sun and stars had profound effects on
people's psychological functioning. Said that the gravitational effect of the moon on bodily fluids could
be a possible cause for mental disorders. This theory inspired the word LUNATIC. Still common with
followers of astrology.
, What were the initial theories of the biological tradition?(e.g., Grey, Hippocrates....using the information
on your worksheet can be helpful to review and guide you on where to look in text)? Be able to correctly
place the theories of supernatural from the biological traditions. - Correct Answer: Greek physician,
Hippocrates, thought to be the father of modern medicine.
Humeral theory of medicine
Somatoform disorders
John P.Grey
Erin Kraeplin
Hippocrates - Correct Answer: Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of modern
medicine. He considered the brain to be the seat of wisdom, consciousness, intelligence, and emotion.
He believed all psychological disorders could be treated. Disorders involving these would then be
logically located in the brain. Also recognized the importance of interpersonal interactions on
psychology.
Hippocratic-Galenic approach and the Humoral Theory of Disorders. - Correct Answer: four bodily fluids
or humors:
- blood (heart), sanguine - cheerful and optimistic
- black bile (spleen) melancholic - depression
- yellow bile (liver) phlegmatic personality - sluggish, apathetic, calm
- phlegm (brain) choleric - hot tempered
first example of associating psychological disorders with chemical imbalance.
Somatoform disorders - Correct Answer: physical symptoms appear to be the result of a medical
problem for which no physical cause can be found.
hysteron (hysteria) - greek for uterus, assumed this only happened in women.
John P. Grey - Correct Answer: Causes of insanity were always physical. Therefore mentally ill patients
should be treated as physically ill. Because of this, conditions in hospitals greatly improved in order to
help treat these disorders.
