PSY 210 EXAM 1 CSU STUDY GUIDE
Individual Differences - Answer -varying characteristics that are relevant to
understanding human behavior
Mental Health - Answer -health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking, or
behavior. Associated with problems functioning.
4 D's - Answer -Deviant
Distress
Dysfunction
Danger
Historical Explanations for abnormal behavior - Answer -abnormal, supernatural
"demon"
Hippocrates and Galen - Answer -physician, influenced western culture/thought on MI.
Greek
Johann Weyer - Answer -coined the term 'Mental Illness'. Dutch
Lunatic Asylum - Answer -started in Europe 15th-16th century called 'madhouse', super
poor conditions
Phillipe Pinel - Answer -said treatment in asylums wasn't ok in Europe, made workers
unchain patients
Dorothea Dix - Answer -called for better treatment of state hospitals in US
1950, changes to asylum - Answer -antipsychotics started being prescribed, lots of ppl
got better and asylums emptied out. caused increase of the homeless pop bc patients
had no where to go
DSM History, 1952 - Answer -first DSM published but wasn't reliable/consistent,
included etiology (origination of disease)
DSM history. 1968 - Answer -DSM 2, said homosexuality was still a illness
DSM history, 1987 - Answer -DSM 3, homosexuality no longer illness but added a
sexual orientation illness (when messed up over being gay). First DSM to acknowledge
culture
when was ICD published - Answer -International Classification of Disease, 1993
Individual Differences - Answer -varying characteristics that are relevant to
understanding human behavior
Mental Health - Answer -health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking, or
behavior. Associated with problems functioning.
4 D's - Answer -Deviant
Distress
Dysfunction
Danger
Historical Explanations for abnormal behavior - Answer -abnormal, supernatural
"demon"
Hippocrates and Galen - Answer -physician, influenced western culture/thought on MI.
Greek
Johann Weyer - Answer -coined the term 'Mental Illness'. Dutch
Lunatic Asylum - Answer -started in Europe 15th-16th century called 'madhouse', super
poor conditions
Phillipe Pinel - Answer -said treatment in asylums wasn't ok in Europe, made workers
unchain patients
Dorothea Dix - Answer -called for better treatment of state hospitals in US
1950, changes to asylum - Answer -antipsychotics started being prescribed, lots of ppl
got better and asylums emptied out. caused increase of the homeless pop bc patients
had no where to go
DSM History, 1952 - Answer -first DSM published but wasn't reliable/consistent,
included etiology (origination of disease)
DSM history. 1968 - Answer -DSM 2, said homosexuality was still a illness
DSM history, 1987 - Answer -DSM 3, homosexuality no longer illness but added a
sexual orientation illness (when messed up over being gay). First DSM to acknowledge
culture
when was ICD published - Answer -International Classification of Disease, 1993
