PSY 3604 MIDTERM EXAMS 2026/2027 QUESTIONS
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔advantages of classifying mental disorders - ✔✔common nomenclature, can be
validating, data + research, economic + political implication
✔✔disadvantages of classifying mental disorders - ✔✔stereotyping, blame on
individual, stigma
✔✔DSM is... - ✔✔not without problems, a-theoretical, descriptive + concrete
✔✔cultural differences in abnormality - ✔✔some languages don't account for some
mental symptoms/illnesses,
✔✔examples of cultural differences in abnormality - ✔✔native americans, alaska
natives, and southeast asian cultures have no word for depressed, taijin kyofusho is an
anxiety disorder in japan associated with things that may offend, embarrass, or make
uncomfortable
✔✔prevalence - ✔✔number of active cases in a population during any given period of
time
✔✔incidence - ✔✔number of new cases that occur during a given period of time
✔✔epidemiology - ✔✔study of distribution of diseases, disorders, or health-related
behaviors
✔✔most prevalent disorders - ✔✔anxiety, depression, phobias
✔✔treatments - ✔✔medication, psychotherapy, hospitalization
✔✔3 approaches to research - ✔✔case studies, self report data, observational
approach
✔✔hypothesis - ✔✔statement or proposition, usually based on an observation, that is
tested in an experiment
✔✔correlational design - ✔✔no manipulation of variables
✔✔experimental design - ✔✔scientists control all variables except one
✔✔issues with dsm - ✔✔oversimplification, comorbidity, misdiagnoses/overdiagnoses,
labeling and stigma
, ✔✔paracelsus - ✔✔Swiss physician who believed in diseases not the devil
✔✔johann weyer - ✔✔German, The founder of the modern study of psychopathology,
save the witches
✔✔st. vincent - ✔✔against exorcism
✔✔phillipe pinel - ✔✔give kindness, humanitarian
✔✔hippocrates - ✔✔brain pathology
✔✔galen - ✔✔ventricular theory of the mind
✔✔european middle ages interpretation of abnormal behavior - ✔✔demonic possession
✔✔islamic middle ages interpretation of abnormal behavior - ✔✔humane treatment, 1st
mental hospital
✔✔asylums - ✔✔began as peaceful places... turned negative
✔✔physical explanations of behavior - ✔✔opioids and other medications alter mood
✔✔phineas gage - ✔✔railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that
dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the
development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
✔✔charles whitman - ✔✔Killed 13 people. His autopsy showed a brain tumour.
✔✔neuroimaging - ✔✔mri, fmri, pet, tpe
✔✔post stroke shows... - ✔✔depression or mania depending on the hemisphere
✔✔gene x environment - ✔✔brain structure and function
✔✔diathesis - ✔✔risk factor (not sufficient on its own to cause disorder)
✔✔stress - ✔✔response to the here and now (not sufficient on its own to cause
disorder)
✔✔freud - ✔✔role of the unconscious, "talking cure", repressed desires
✔✔behavioral perspective - ✔✔observable behavior, anxiety disorders
classical fear conditioning
AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔advantages of classifying mental disorders - ✔✔common nomenclature, can be
validating, data + research, economic + political implication
✔✔disadvantages of classifying mental disorders - ✔✔stereotyping, blame on
individual, stigma
✔✔DSM is... - ✔✔not without problems, a-theoretical, descriptive + concrete
✔✔cultural differences in abnormality - ✔✔some languages don't account for some
mental symptoms/illnesses,
✔✔examples of cultural differences in abnormality - ✔✔native americans, alaska
natives, and southeast asian cultures have no word for depressed, taijin kyofusho is an
anxiety disorder in japan associated with things that may offend, embarrass, or make
uncomfortable
✔✔prevalence - ✔✔number of active cases in a population during any given period of
time
✔✔incidence - ✔✔number of new cases that occur during a given period of time
✔✔epidemiology - ✔✔study of distribution of diseases, disorders, or health-related
behaviors
✔✔most prevalent disorders - ✔✔anxiety, depression, phobias
✔✔treatments - ✔✔medication, psychotherapy, hospitalization
✔✔3 approaches to research - ✔✔case studies, self report data, observational
approach
✔✔hypothesis - ✔✔statement or proposition, usually based on an observation, that is
tested in an experiment
✔✔correlational design - ✔✔no manipulation of variables
✔✔experimental design - ✔✔scientists control all variables except one
✔✔issues with dsm - ✔✔oversimplification, comorbidity, misdiagnoses/overdiagnoses,
labeling and stigma
, ✔✔paracelsus - ✔✔Swiss physician who believed in diseases not the devil
✔✔johann weyer - ✔✔German, The founder of the modern study of psychopathology,
save the witches
✔✔st. vincent - ✔✔against exorcism
✔✔phillipe pinel - ✔✔give kindness, humanitarian
✔✔hippocrates - ✔✔brain pathology
✔✔galen - ✔✔ventricular theory of the mind
✔✔european middle ages interpretation of abnormal behavior - ✔✔demonic possession
✔✔islamic middle ages interpretation of abnormal behavior - ✔✔humane treatment, 1st
mental hospital
✔✔asylums - ✔✔began as peaceful places... turned negative
✔✔physical explanations of behavior - ✔✔opioids and other medications alter mood
✔✔phineas gage - ✔✔railroad worker who survived a severe brain injury that
dramatically changed his personality and behavior; case played a role in the
development of the understanding of the localization of brain function
✔✔charles whitman - ✔✔Killed 13 people. His autopsy showed a brain tumour.
✔✔neuroimaging - ✔✔mri, fmri, pet, tpe
✔✔post stroke shows... - ✔✔depression or mania depending on the hemisphere
✔✔gene x environment - ✔✔brain structure and function
✔✔diathesis - ✔✔risk factor (not sufficient on its own to cause disorder)
✔✔stress - ✔✔response to the here and now (not sufficient on its own to cause
disorder)
✔✔freud - ✔✔role of the unconscious, "talking cure", repressed desires
✔✔behavioral perspective - ✔✔observable behavior, anxiety disorders
classical fear conditioning
