PSYC 3082 EXAM 1 VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
psychological disorder - Answers - 1. abnormal cognitive/emotional/behavioral
functioning
2. outside of social norms (deviance)
3. impairment of general functioning (job, relationships, etc.)
4. personal distress
psychiatrist - Answers - doctor of medicine
psychologist - Answers - trained in research and delivering treatment
social worker - Answers - trained in delivering treatment
Scientist-Practitioner - Answers - 1. consumer of science
2. evaluator of science
3. creator of science
presenting problem - Answers - what brought the patient to seek help
prevalence - Answers - rate of this disorder in a population
incidence - Answers - number of new cases of this disorder over a set period of time
onset - Answers - how and when a disorder develops
acute onset - Answers - immediate/sudden onset
insidious onset - Answers - gradual onset
prognosis - Answers - expected outcome
etiology - Answers - potential causes of a disorder
(genetic predisposal, environment (abuse), etc.)
3 traditions used to explain mental disorders throughout history - Answers -
supernatural, biological, and psychological
Who was Galen? - Answers - Humoral Theory- abnormal functioning is caused by too
much or too little fluid in the body
4 fluids in the Humoral Theory - Answers - blood, black bile, yellow bile, and flehm
, John P Grey - Answers - 1. believed mental illness always had a physical cause
2. led to hospital reform
Emil Kraeplin - Answers - 1. father of the classification
2. created 2 categories of mental disorders: manic depressive psychoses and dementia
praecox
3. categorized 18 mental disorders
Philippe Pinel - Answers - 1. coined 5 types of insanity
-mania (bipolar)
-melancholia with delirium (psychotic major depression)
-melancholia without delirium (major depression)
-dementia
-idiotism (retardation)
Dorothea Dix - Answers - mental hygiene movement
Sigmund Freud - Answers - 1. theory of the structure and function of the mind
2. -Id: irrational and emotional (pleasure principle)
-Ego: mediator between superego and id; rational (reality principles)
-Superego: conscience (moral principles)
Unconscious level (Freud) - Answers - thoughts/motivations that are out of our
awareness
Pre-conscious level (Freud) - Answers - we are not initially aware of these drives, but
we can be made aware of them
Conscious level (Freud) - Answers - thoughts, feelings and motivations we are
immediately aware of
Ivan Pavlov - Answers - classical conditioning
unconditioned stimulus - Answers - stimulus that triggers a natural response with no
need for manipulation
unconditioned response - Answers - the natural, instinctual response to a stimulus
conditioned stimulus - Answers - stimulus that's added to the US to trigger a new
learned response
conditioned response - Answers - a learned response to a conditioned stimulus
Bio-Psycho-Social Model - Answers - assumes that disorder is caused by biological,
psychological, and social factors
psychological disorder - Answers - 1. abnormal cognitive/emotional/behavioral
functioning
2. outside of social norms (deviance)
3. impairment of general functioning (job, relationships, etc.)
4. personal distress
psychiatrist - Answers - doctor of medicine
psychologist - Answers - trained in research and delivering treatment
social worker - Answers - trained in delivering treatment
Scientist-Practitioner - Answers - 1. consumer of science
2. evaluator of science
3. creator of science
presenting problem - Answers - what brought the patient to seek help
prevalence - Answers - rate of this disorder in a population
incidence - Answers - number of new cases of this disorder over a set period of time
onset - Answers - how and when a disorder develops
acute onset - Answers - immediate/sudden onset
insidious onset - Answers - gradual onset
prognosis - Answers - expected outcome
etiology - Answers - potential causes of a disorder
(genetic predisposal, environment (abuse), etc.)
3 traditions used to explain mental disorders throughout history - Answers -
supernatural, biological, and psychological
Who was Galen? - Answers - Humoral Theory- abnormal functioning is caused by too
much or too little fluid in the body
4 fluids in the Humoral Theory - Answers - blood, black bile, yellow bile, and flehm
, John P Grey - Answers - 1. believed mental illness always had a physical cause
2. led to hospital reform
Emil Kraeplin - Answers - 1. father of the classification
2. created 2 categories of mental disorders: manic depressive psychoses and dementia
praecox
3. categorized 18 mental disorders
Philippe Pinel - Answers - 1. coined 5 types of insanity
-mania (bipolar)
-melancholia with delirium (psychotic major depression)
-melancholia without delirium (major depression)
-dementia
-idiotism (retardation)
Dorothea Dix - Answers - mental hygiene movement
Sigmund Freud - Answers - 1. theory of the structure and function of the mind
2. -Id: irrational and emotional (pleasure principle)
-Ego: mediator between superego and id; rational (reality principles)
-Superego: conscience (moral principles)
Unconscious level (Freud) - Answers - thoughts/motivations that are out of our
awareness
Pre-conscious level (Freud) - Answers - we are not initially aware of these drives, but
we can be made aware of them
Conscious level (Freud) - Answers - thoughts, feelings and motivations we are
immediately aware of
Ivan Pavlov - Answers - classical conditioning
unconditioned stimulus - Answers - stimulus that triggers a natural response with no
need for manipulation
unconditioned response - Answers - the natural, instinctual response to a stimulus
conditioned stimulus - Answers - stimulus that's added to the US to trigger a new
learned response
conditioned response - Answers - a learned response to a conditioned stimulus
Bio-Psycho-Social Model - Answers - assumes that disorder is caused by biological,
psychological, and social factors
