PSYC 2300: Midterm 1 questions with
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Abnormality - ANS ✔✔Problems in thoughts, feelings, and behavior vary from normal to
abnormal
Psychopathology - ANS ✔✔the scientific study of mental disorders or mental illness
Cultural Relativism - ANS ✔✔There are not universal standards or rules for labeling a
behavior as abnormal
"Four Ds" of Abnormality - ANS ✔✔dysfunction, distress, deviance, dangerousness
Dysfunction - ANS ✔✔interfere with a person's ability to function in their daily life
Distress - ANS ✔✔cause emotional or physical pain
Deviance - ANS ✔✔outside cultural norm
Dangerousness - ANS ✔✔Can harm or scare self or others
Biological theories - ANS ✔✔Abnormal behavior is similar to physical disease is caused by
the breakdown of systems in the body
,Supernatural theories - ANS ✔✔abnormal behavior results from divine, intervention, curses,
demonic possession, or personal sin
Psychological theories - ANS ✔✔abnormal behavior results from trauma or chronic stress
Prehistoric Times - ANS ✔✔driving away evil spirits and supernatural causes of abnormal
behavior
Trephination - ANS ✔✔Sections of the skull are drilled or cut away to allow evil spirits to go
out of the body
Ancient China - ANS ✔✔Balancing Yin and Yang; abnormal behavior caused by imbalance of
positive (yang) and negative (yin) forced in body
Ancient Egypt, Greece and Tome - ANS ✔✔Biological theories dominate; biological caused of
abnormal behavior, rejected supernatural causes
Medieval Times - ANS ✔✔Return to supernatural theories; abnormal behavior was often
interpreted as due to witchcraft
Psychic Epidemics - ANS ✔✔Large number of people engaging in unusual behaviors that
appear to have psychological origin
Renaissance - ANS ✔✔Natural theories dominate; Johann Weyer believed that the mind was
as susceptible to sickness as the body (Gheel Shrine)
, Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem in London - ANS ✔✔General hospitals began to include
special rooms for people with mental disorders
Patients' rights movement - ANS ✔✔mental patients recover better or live more satisfying
lives if they are integrated into the community
Deinstitutionalization - ANS ✔✔integrating mental patients into the community with the
support of community-based treatment facilities
Community Mental Health Movement - ANS ✔✔provide coordinated mental health services
to people in community mental health centers
Halfway houses - ANS ✔✔Offer people with long-term mental health problems the
opportunity to live in a structured, supportive environment
Day treatment centers - ANS ✔✔allow people to obtain treatment during the day, along with
occupational and rehabilitative therapies, but people return home at night
Psychiatrists - ANS ✔✔have MD, trained in diagnostics
Clinical psychologists - ANS ✔✔Typically have PhD, specialize in treating and researching
psychological problems
Marriage and family therapists - ANS ✔✔specialize in helping families, couples, and children
Clinical social workers - ANS ✔✔master's in social work, help people overcome social
conditions contributing to psychological problems
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Abnormality - ANS ✔✔Problems in thoughts, feelings, and behavior vary from normal to
abnormal
Psychopathology - ANS ✔✔the scientific study of mental disorders or mental illness
Cultural Relativism - ANS ✔✔There are not universal standards or rules for labeling a
behavior as abnormal
"Four Ds" of Abnormality - ANS ✔✔dysfunction, distress, deviance, dangerousness
Dysfunction - ANS ✔✔interfere with a person's ability to function in their daily life
Distress - ANS ✔✔cause emotional or physical pain
Deviance - ANS ✔✔outside cultural norm
Dangerousness - ANS ✔✔Can harm or scare self or others
Biological theories - ANS ✔✔Abnormal behavior is similar to physical disease is caused by
the breakdown of systems in the body
,Supernatural theories - ANS ✔✔abnormal behavior results from divine, intervention, curses,
demonic possession, or personal sin
Psychological theories - ANS ✔✔abnormal behavior results from trauma or chronic stress
Prehistoric Times - ANS ✔✔driving away evil spirits and supernatural causes of abnormal
behavior
Trephination - ANS ✔✔Sections of the skull are drilled or cut away to allow evil spirits to go
out of the body
Ancient China - ANS ✔✔Balancing Yin and Yang; abnormal behavior caused by imbalance of
positive (yang) and negative (yin) forced in body
Ancient Egypt, Greece and Tome - ANS ✔✔Biological theories dominate; biological caused of
abnormal behavior, rejected supernatural causes
Medieval Times - ANS ✔✔Return to supernatural theories; abnormal behavior was often
interpreted as due to witchcraft
Psychic Epidemics - ANS ✔✔Large number of people engaging in unusual behaviors that
appear to have psychological origin
Renaissance - ANS ✔✔Natural theories dominate; Johann Weyer believed that the mind was
as susceptible to sickness as the body (Gheel Shrine)
, Hospital of Saint Mary of Bethlehem in London - ANS ✔✔General hospitals began to include
special rooms for people with mental disorders
Patients' rights movement - ANS ✔✔mental patients recover better or live more satisfying
lives if they are integrated into the community
Deinstitutionalization - ANS ✔✔integrating mental patients into the community with the
support of community-based treatment facilities
Community Mental Health Movement - ANS ✔✔provide coordinated mental health services
to people in community mental health centers
Halfway houses - ANS ✔✔Offer people with long-term mental health problems the
opportunity to live in a structured, supportive environment
Day treatment centers - ANS ✔✔allow people to obtain treatment during the day, along with
occupational and rehabilitative therapies, but people return home at night
Psychiatrists - ANS ✔✔have MD, trained in diagnostics
Clinical psychologists - ANS ✔✔Typically have PhD, specialize in treating and researching
psychological problems
Marriage and family therapists - ANS ✔✔specialize in helping families, couples, and children
Clinical social workers - ANS ✔✔master's in social work, help people overcome social
conditions contributing to psychological problems
