Abnormal Psych | Exam #1 Questions and Answers with 100%
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Question 1.
The symptoms and signs of mental disorders, including such phenomena as depressed
mood, panic attacks, and bizarre beliefs. Literally translated: Pathology of the mind
Correct Answer: Psychopathology
Question 2.
Abnormal Psychology
Correct Answer: The application of psychological science to the study of mental
disorders
Question 3.
Several types of severe mental disorders in which the person is considered to be out of
contact with reality.
Correct Answer: Psychosis
Question 4.
A group of symptoms that appear together and are assumed to represent a specific type of
disorder
Correct Answer: Syndrome
Question 5.
-Proposed by Jerome Wakefield -Condition should be considered a mental disorder if, and
only if, it meets two criteria: -The condition results from something inside the person not
working properly. Ex: Mechanisms that regulate levels of emotion, and those that
distinguish between real auditory sensations and those that are imagined. -The condition
causes some harm to the person as judged by the standards of the person's culture. These
negative consequences are measured in terms of the person's own subjective distress of
difficulty performing expected social or occupational roles. -Incorporates one element that
is based as much as possibly on an objective evaluation of performance. -Recognizes that
every type of dysfunction does not lead to a disorder. -Only dysfunctions that result in
significant harm to the person are considered to be disorders.
Correct Answer: Harmful Dysfunction
Question 6.
DSM-5 definition of Mental Disorders
Correct Answer: -A syndrome (groups of associated features) that is
characterized by by disturbance of a person's cognition, emotion regulation, or
behavior. -The consequences of which are clinically significant distress or
disability in social, occupational, or other important activities. -The syndrome
,reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental
processes that are associated with mental functioning. -Must not be merely an
expectable response to common stressors and losses or a culturally sanctioned
response to a particular event. -That is not primarily a result of social deviance
or conflicts with society.
Question 7.
The scientific study of the frequency and distribution of disorders within a population.
Correct Answer: Epidemiology
Question 8.
The number of new cases of a disorder that appear in a population during a specific period
of time.
Correct Answer: Incidence
Question 9.
The total number of active cases, both old and new, that are present in a population during
a specific period of time.
Correct Answer: Prevalence
Question 10.
Comorbidity
Correct Answer: The presence of more than one condition within the same
period of time.
Question 11.
Most Common Mental Disorders
Correct Answer: -Major depression -Alcohol abuse -Drug abuse -PTSD -Panic
disorder -Bipolar disorder
Question 12.
Disorders more common in women:
Correct Answer: Major depression, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders
Question 13.
Disorders more common in men:
Correct Answer: Alcoholism and antisocial personality
, Question 14.
-Greek physician -Ridiculed demonological accounts of illness and insanity. -Hypothesized
that abnormal behavior, like other forms of disease, had natural causes. -Health depended
on maintaining a natural balance within the body, specific a balance of four bodily fluids
(humors): blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. -Argued various types of disorders,
including psychopathology, resulted from either an excess or a deficiency of one of these
four fluids.
Correct Answer: Hippocrates
Question 15.
-Mentally ill and intellectually disabled aroused little interest and were given marginal care
-Disturbed behavior was considered to be the responsibility of the family rather than the
community or the state -Mentally disturbed people who were violent or appeared
dangerous were often imprisoned with criminals -Those who could not subsist on their own
were placed in almshouses for the poor -In the 1600s and 1700s, insane asylums were
established to house the mentally disturbed.
Correct Answer: Middle Ages
Question 16.
-As the nineteenth century began, the moral treatment movement led to improved
conditions in at least some mental hospitals. -Founded on a basic respect for human
dignity and the belief that humanistic care would help to relieve mental illness, moral
reform efforts were instituted by leading mental health professionals (Benjamin Rush,
Philippe Pinel, William Tuke)
Correct Answer: Moral Treatment Movement
Question 17.
-"Father" of psychiatry -Leader of moral treatment movement to improve mental health
treatment methods
Correct Answer: Philippe Pinel
Question 18.
-Leader of moral treatment philosophy movement in mid 1800s -Argued that treating the
mentally ill in hospitals was both more humane and more economical than caring for them
haphazardly in their communities
Correct Answer: Dorothea Dix
Question 19.
-Opened in 1833 in Massachusetts as a public supported asylum for "lunatics" -Samuel
Woodward, the asylum's first superintendent, also became the first president of the AMSAII
(APA) -Became a model for psychiatric care on which other nineteenth-century hospitals
were built -Treatment included a blend of physical and moral procedures
Correct Answer: Worcester Lunatic Hospital
Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
The symptoms and signs of mental disorders, including such phenomena as depressed
mood, panic attacks, and bizarre beliefs. Literally translated: Pathology of the mind
Correct Answer: Psychopathology
Question 2.
Abnormal Psychology
Correct Answer: The application of psychological science to the study of mental
disorders
Question 3.
Several types of severe mental disorders in which the person is considered to be out of
contact with reality.
Correct Answer: Psychosis
Question 4.
A group of symptoms that appear together and are assumed to represent a specific type of
disorder
Correct Answer: Syndrome
Question 5.
-Proposed by Jerome Wakefield -Condition should be considered a mental disorder if, and
only if, it meets two criteria: -The condition results from something inside the person not
working properly. Ex: Mechanisms that regulate levels of emotion, and those that
distinguish between real auditory sensations and those that are imagined. -The condition
causes some harm to the person as judged by the standards of the person's culture. These
negative consequences are measured in terms of the person's own subjective distress of
difficulty performing expected social or occupational roles. -Incorporates one element that
is based as much as possibly on an objective evaluation of performance. -Recognizes that
every type of dysfunction does not lead to a disorder. -Only dysfunctions that result in
significant harm to the person are considered to be disorders.
Correct Answer: Harmful Dysfunction
Question 6.
DSM-5 definition of Mental Disorders
Correct Answer: -A syndrome (groups of associated features) that is
characterized by by disturbance of a person's cognition, emotion regulation, or
behavior. -The consequences of which are clinically significant distress or
disability in social, occupational, or other important activities. -The syndrome
,reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental
processes that are associated with mental functioning. -Must not be merely an
expectable response to common stressors and losses or a culturally sanctioned
response to a particular event. -That is not primarily a result of social deviance
or conflicts with society.
Question 7.
The scientific study of the frequency and distribution of disorders within a population.
Correct Answer: Epidemiology
Question 8.
The number of new cases of a disorder that appear in a population during a specific period
of time.
Correct Answer: Incidence
Question 9.
The total number of active cases, both old and new, that are present in a population during
a specific period of time.
Correct Answer: Prevalence
Question 10.
Comorbidity
Correct Answer: The presence of more than one condition within the same
period of time.
Question 11.
Most Common Mental Disorders
Correct Answer: -Major depression -Alcohol abuse -Drug abuse -PTSD -Panic
disorder -Bipolar disorder
Question 12.
Disorders more common in women:
Correct Answer: Major depression, anxiety disorders, and eating disorders
Question 13.
Disorders more common in men:
Correct Answer: Alcoholism and antisocial personality
, Question 14.
-Greek physician -Ridiculed demonological accounts of illness and insanity. -Hypothesized
that abnormal behavior, like other forms of disease, had natural causes. -Health depended
on maintaining a natural balance within the body, specific a balance of four bodily fluids
(humors): blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. -Argued various types of disorders,
including psychopathology, resulted from either an excess or a deficiency of one of these
four fluids.
Correct Answer: Hippocrates
Question 15.
-Mentally ill and intellectually disabled aroused little interest and were given marginal care
-Disturbed behavior was considered to be the responsibility of the family rather than the
community or the state -Mentally disturbed people who were violent or appeared
dangerous were often imprisoned with criminals -Those who could not subsist on their own
were placed in almshouses for the poor -In the 1600s and 1700s, insane asylums were
established to house the mentally disturbed.
Correct Answer: Middle Ages
Question 16.
-As the nineteenth century began, the moral treatment movement led to improved
conditions in at least some mental hospitals. -Founded on a basic respect for human
dignity and the belief that humanistic care would help to relieve mental illness, moral
reform efforts were instituted by leading mental health professionals (Benjamin Rush,
Philippe Pinel, William Tuke)
Correct Answer: Moral Treatment Movement
Question 17.
-"Father" of psychiatry -Leader of moral treatment movement to improve mental health
treatment methods
Correct Answer: Philippe Pinel
Question 18.
-Leader of moral treatment philosophy movement in mid 1800s -Argued that treating the
mentally ill in hospitals was both more humane and more economical than caring for them
haphazardly in their communities
Correct Answer: Dorothea Dix
Question 19.
-Opened in 1833 in Massachusetts as a public supported asylum for "lunatics" -Samuel
Woodward, the asylum's first superintendent, also became the first president of the AMSAII
(APA) -Became a model for psychiatric care on which other nineteenth-century hospitals
were built -Treatment included a blend of physical and moral procedures
Correct Answer: Worcester Lunatic Hospital
