PSYCH 350 Exam 1 – Questions With Compete Answers
Psychopathology ✔️Ans - scientific study of psychological disorders
Abnormal behavior ✔️Ans - a psychological dysfunction within an
individual that is associated with deviance, and distress/impairment in
functioning
Psychological disorder ✔️Ans - behavioral, psychological, or biological
dysfunction that is unexpected in their cultural context and associated with
present distress and/or impairment in functioning, or increased risk of
suffering, death, pain, or impairment
Deviance ✔️Ans - abnormal behavior, thoughts, and emotions that
differ markedly from a society's ideas about proper functioning
-judgements vary from culture to culture
Dysfunction ✔️Ans - abnormal behavior, thoughts, and emotions that
lead to impairment in key areas of life and daily activities
Distress/impairment ✔️Ans - abnormal behavior, thoughts, and
emotions that lead to emotional pain and suffering
Anorexia nervosa ✔️Ans - eating disorder: refusal to maintain body
weight of at least 85% ideal body weight for fear of being overweight
Exorcism ✔️Ans - 2000-1000 B.C. religious ritual that attributes
disordered behavior to possession by demons and seeks to treat the
individual by casting the demons from the body
Trephining ✔️Ans - 2000-1000 B.C. drilling holes through the skull to
allow evil spirits to escape as a treatment for abnormal behavior and
disorders
Hippocrates ✔️Ans - believed mental disorders arise from natural (not
supernatural) causes
, -brain is central organ of intellectual activity
-mental disorders are due to brain pathology, injuries, and heredity
Mania, melancholia, phrenitis (brain fever) ✔️Ans - Hippocrates' three
categories and classifications of mental illness. Treated by "do no harm
concept"
-walking is a man's best medicine, treat specific to diagnosis, and recognize
importance of environment
Galen ✔️Ans - Follower of Hippocrates - rewrote many of the classic
Hippocratic texts. Used science to contribute to the field. Elaborated on the
nervous system based on animal dissections
blood (sanguis), phlegm, yellow bile (choler), black bile (melancholer)
✔️Ans - The four humors:
1. from the heart: optimistic and cheerful, daydreamy and impulsive
(mania)
2. from the brain: consistent and relaxed but sluggish
3. from the liver: leader, controlling, but bad tempered and angry
4.from the spleen: kind, considerate, creative but obsessed with tragedy
and cruelty (depression)
Roman medicine ✔️Ans - Pragmatic approaches to medicine - distinct
from the "temple healers" and folk beliefs. Keep humors in equilibrium.
Beginning of public health.
Baghdad ✔️Ans - The first mental hospital established in _______ in A.D.
792
Avicenna ✔️Ans - "the prince of physicians" who wrote The Canon of
Medicine and was ahead of his time. Referred to hysteria, mania, dementia,
phobias, depression, early idea of diabetes and asserted that tuberculosis
was contagious.
Middle Ages ✔️Ans - time period with return of belief that mental
illness was due to demonic possession. Return on executions, and
Psychopathology ✔️Ans - scientific study of psychological disorders
Abnormal behavior ✔️Ans - a psychological dysfunction within an
individual that is associated with deviance, and distress/impairment in
functioning
Psychological disorder ✔️Ans - behavioral, psychological, or biological
dysfunction that is unexpected in their cultural context and associated with
present distress and/or impairment in functioning, or increased risk of
suffering, death, pain, or impairment
Deviance ✔️Ans - abnormal behavior, thoughts, and emotions that
differ markedly from a society's ideas about proper functioning
-judgements vary from culture to culture
Dysfunction ✔️Ans - abnormal behavior, thoughts, and emotions that
lead to impairment in key areas of life and daily activities
Distress/impairment ✔️Ans - abnormal behavior, thoughts, and
emotions that lead to emotional pain and suffering
Anorexia nervosa ✔️Ans - eating disorder: refusal to maintain body
weight of at least 85% ideal body weight for fear of being overweight
Exorcism ✔️Ans - 2000-1000 B.C. religious ritual that attributes
disordered behavior to possession by demons and seeks to treat the
individual by casting the demons from the body
Trephining ✔️Ans - 2000-1000 B.C. drilling holes through the skull to
allow evil spirits to escape as a treatment for abnormal behavior and
disorders
Hippocrates ✔️Ans - believed mental disorders arise from natural (not
supernatural) causes
, -brain is central organ of intellectual activity
-mental disorders are due to brain pathology, injuries, and heredity
Mania, melancholia, phrenitis (brain fever) ✔️Ans - Hippocrates' three
categories and classifications of mental illness. Treated by "do no harm
concept"
-walking is a man's best medicine, treat specific to diagnosis, and recognize
importance of environment
Galen ✔️Ans - Follower of Hippocrates - rewrote many of the classic
Hippocratic texts. Used science to contribute to the field. Elaborated on the
nervous system based on animal dissections
blood (sanguis), phlegm, yellow bile (choler), black bile (melancholer)
✔️Ans - The four humors:
1. from the heart: optimistic and cheerful, daydreamy and impulsive
(mania)
2. from the brain: consistent and relaxed but sluggish
3. from the liver: leader, controlling, but bad tempered and angry
4.from the spleen: kind, considerate, creative but obsessed with tragedy
and cruelty (depression)
Roman medicine ✔️Ans - Pragmatic approaches to medicine - distinct
from the "temple healers" and folk beliefs. Keep humors in equilibrium.
Beginning of public health.
Baghdad ✔️Ans - The first mental hospital established in _______ in A.D.
792
Avicenna ✔️Ans - "the prince of physicians" who wrote The Canon of
Medicine and was ahead of his time. Referred to hysteria, mania, dementia,
phobias, depression, early idea of diabetes and asserted that tuberculosis
was contagious.
Middle Ages ✔️Ans - time period with return of belief that mental
illness was due to demonic possession. Return on executions, and
