PSYC 3082 GROS EXAM 1 VERIFIED STUDY GUIDE
psychological dysfunction - Answers - Abnormal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral
functioning
Behavior is outside cultural norms
impairment - Answers - - problems with job, relationships, daily routine
- set in the context of a person's background and culture
abnormal behavior - Answers - a psychological dysfunction associated with distress or
impairment in functioning that is not typical or culturally expected
Psychopathology - Answers - the scientific study of psychological disorders
most psychiatrists treat patients primarily by prescribing medication and recieved a MD,
while psychologists mainly rely on providing talk and/or behavioral therapy. A social
worker is also a licensed professional, but have a master's degree instead of a
doctarate. - Answers - differences between psychologist, psychiatrists, and social
worker
presenting problem - Answers - major symptoms and behavior the client is experiencing
to distinguish clinically significant dsyfunction from common human experience
Prevalence - Answers - the rate of disorder in population (percent/ratio)
Incidence - Answers - number of how many NEW cases are developed/measured in a
particular time period
acute onset - Answers - disorder begins suddenly
insidious onset - Answers - develop gradually over an extended period
prognosis - Answers - a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease or
situation.
expected outlook
guarded prognosis - Answers - the probable outcome doesn't look good
Etiology - Answers - cause of disease
Sigmund Freud - Answers - Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious
causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
, Galen - Answers - developed a theory of personality based on his understanding of fluid
circulation in humans, and he believed that there was a physiological basis for mental
disorders.
humoral theory of disorders - Answers - functioning is related to having too much or too
little of four key bodily fluids (humors)
blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
treated by changing environmental conditions or bloodletting/vomiting
supernatural tradition - Answers - Deviant behavior as a battle of "Good" vs. "Evil"
-Caused by demonic possession, witchcraft, sorcery
-Treatments included exorcism, torture, religious services
- present in the middle ages
Biological Tradition - Answers - explanation of psychological dysfunction that primarily
emphasizes brain disorder or illness as the cause
Hysteria "the wandering uterus" - Answers - psychological symptoms were a result of
the uterus moving around in the body that was treated with surgery
electric shock, crude surgery, insulin to induce seizures, major and minor tranquilizers -
Answers - early biological treatments examples
Emil Kraepelin - Answers - A pioneer of diagnostic categorization in mental health who
was one of the first to assign formal labels to particular clusters of symptoms
- emphasized that different disorders have unique age of onset, symptoms, causes
Phillipe Pinel - Answers - believed that mental patients were ill and needed to be treated
as such - with kindness and caring.
coined 5 terms of insanity
1. mania 2. melancholy with delirium 3. meloncholy without delirium 4. dementia 5.
idiotism - Answers - Pinel's terms of insanity
moral therapy - Answers - philosophy of treatment that emphasized treating mentally ill
people with compassion and understanding
- treating them as normally as possible in normal environment
Dorothea Dix - Answers - Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first
wave of US mental asylums
mental hygeine movement
Id - Answers - a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud,
strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.
operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
illogical, emotional, irrational
psychological dysfunction - Answers - Abnormal cognitive, emotional, or behavioral
functioning
Behavior is outside cultural norms
impairment - Answers - - problems with job, relationships, daily routine
- set in the context of a person's background and culture
abnormal behavior - Answers - a psychological dysfunction associated with distress or
impairment in functioning that is not typical or culturally expected
Psychopathology - Answers - the scientific study of psychological disorders
most psychiatrists treat patients primarily by prescribing medication and recieved a MD,
while psychologists mainly rely on providing talk and/or behavioral therapy. A social
worker is also a licensed professional, but have a master's degree instead of a
doctarate. - Answers - differences between psychologist, psychiatrists, and social
worker
presenting problem - Answers - major symptoms and behavior the client is experiencing
to distinguish clinically significant dsyfunction from common human experience
Prevalence - Answers - the rate of disorder in population (percent/ratio)
Incidence - Answers - number of how many NEW cases are developed/measured in a
particular time period
acute onset - Answers - disorder begins suddenly
insidious onset - Answers - develop gradually over an extended period
prognosis - Answers - a forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease or
situation.
expected outlook
guarded prognosis - Answers - the probable outcome doesn't look good
Etiology - Answers - cause of disease
Sigmund Freud - Answers - Austrian physician whose work focused on the unconscious
causes of behavior and personality formation; founded psychoanalysis.
, Galen - Answers - developed a theory of personality based on his understanding of fluid
circulation in humans, and he believed that there was a physiological basis for mental
disorders.
humoral theory of disorders - Answers - functioning is related to having too much or too
little of four key bodily fluids (humors)
blood, phlegm, black bile, yellow bile
treated by changing environmental conditions or bloodletting/vomiting
supernatural tradition - Answers - Deviant behavior as a battle of "Good" vs. "Evil"
-Caused by demonic possession, witchcraft, sorcery
-Treatments included exorcism, torture, religious services
- present in the middle ages
Biological Tradition - Answers - explanation of psychological dysfunction that primarily
emphasizes brain disorder or illness as the cause
Hysteria "the wandering uterus" - Answers - psychological symptoms were a result of
the uterus moving around in the body that was treated with surgery
electric shock, crude surgery, insulin to induce seizures, major and minor tranquilizers -
Answers - early biological treatments examples
Emil Kraepelin - Answers - A pioneer of diagnostic categorization in mental health who
was one of the first to assign formal labels to particular clusters of symptoms
- emphasized that different disorders have unique age of onset, symptoms, causes
Phillipe Pinel - Answers - believed that mental patients were ill and needed to be treated
as such - with kindness and caring.
coined 5 terms of insanity
1. mania 2. melancholy with delirium 3. meloncholy without delirium 4. dementia 5.
idiotism - Answers - Pinel's terms of insanity
moral therapy - Answers - philosophy of treatment that emphasized treating mentally ill
people with compassion and understanding
- treating them as normally as possible in normal environment
Dorothea Dix - Answers - Rights activist on behalf of mentally ill patients - created first
wave of US mental asylums
mental hygeine movement
Id - Answers - a reservoir of unconscious psychic energy that, according to Freud,
strives to satisfy basic sexual and aggressive drives.
operates on the pleasure principle, demanding immediate gratification.
illogical, emotional, irrational
