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Psy 657 Test 1 Exam Questions And Answers
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Hippocrates - Answer✔Believed mental disease result of brain pathology. "Father of Modern
Medicine"
Plato - Answer✔first to argue that mentality disturbed criminals should not be in prison. First
progression to insanity plea.
Galen - Answer✔Psychological disorders can have physical causes
Mass madness - Answer✔the wide spread occurrence of a group behavioral disorder
Exorcism - Answer✔believed the mentally disturbed were inhabited by demons
Witchcraft - Answer✔The mentality disturbed were often accused of engaging in a cult activity
Humanitarian Approaches - Answer✔The reemergence of scientific questioning. New found
importance placed on human interests and concerns. Through this the belief was that the
mentality disturbed were different because of their sickness, and should be treated differently.
Asylum - Answer✔special institutions meant solely for the care of the mentality ill. Main goal
was to separate mentality ill from society. Not a good thing, became similar to penal institution
i.e. prison
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Pinel's experiment - Answer✔idea was to remove chains of inmates in asylums and treat them
with kindness and consideration. Actually found improvements and changed direction on how
we treated the mentality ill.
Moral management - Answer✔another type of humanitarian approach. Treatment that focused
on patients' social, individual and occupational needs. Fewer restraints, started infusing
occupational skills.
Mental Hygiene movement - Answer✔focused almost entirely on the physical wellbeing of
patients. Took focus off social and occupational needs and skills because belief was mental
disorders were of a biological cause. Belief was a healthy body would help to alleviate the
symptoms. Biological cure was never discovered.
Dorothea Dix - Answer✔Goes with mental hygiene movement. Was a new england school
teacher who became champions of poor and forgotten people in prisons and mental
institutions. Victim of childhood impoverishment herself and lead her to push for these humane
treatments. Raised money and established 32 hospitals instead of asylums
General Paresis - Answer✔"syphilis of the brain": discovered that if syphilitic patients were
treated early enough that the normally resultant brain degeneration would cease. First time
brain linked to mental disorders and discovered that organic factors could product mental
disorders.
Mesmerism - Answer✔coined by Mesmer.... believed mental disturbances could be treated
with magnetic forces. Debunked but first link to hypnosis used for mental disorder.
Nancy School - Answer✔First organized school of thought that hypothesized that hypnotism
and hysteria were related. Believed hysteria could be removed through hypnosis
Freud - Answer✔First person who attempted to answer how psychologically based mental
disorders developed.
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Psy 657 Test 1 Exam Questions And Answers
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Hippocrates - Answer✔Believed mental disease result of brain pathology. "Father of Modern
Medicine"
Plato - Answer✔first to argue that mentality disturbed criminals should not be in prison. First
progression to insanity plea.
Galen - Answer✔Psychological disorders can have physical causes
Mass madness - Answer✔the wide spread occurrence of a group behavioral disorder
Exorcism - Answer✔believed the mentally disturbed were inhabited by demons
Witchcraft - Answer✔The mentality disturbed were often accused of engaging in a cult activity
Humanitarian Approaches - Answer✔The reemergence of scientific questioning. New found
importance placed on human interests and concerns. Through this the belief was that the
mentality disturbed were different because of their sickness, and should be treated differently.
Asylum - Answer✔special institutions meant solely for the care of the mentality ill. Main goal
was to separate mentality ill from society. Not a good thing, became similar to penal institution
i.e. prison
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Pinel's experiment - Answer✔idea was to remove chains of inmates in asylums and treat them
with kindness and consideration. Actually found improvements and changed direction on how
we treated the mentality ill.
Moral management - Answer✔another type of humanitarian approach. Treatment that focused
on patients' social, individual and occupational needs. Fewer restraints, started infusing
occupational skills.
Mental Hygiene movement - Answer✔focused almost entirely on the physical wellbeing of
patients. Took focus off social and occupational needs and skills because belief was mental
disorders were of a biological cause. Belief was a healthy body would help to alleviate the
symptoms. Biological cure was never discovered.
Dorothea Dix - Answer✔Goes with mental hygiene movement. Was a new england school
teacher who became champions of poor and forgotten people in prisons and mental
institutions. Victim of childhood impoverishment herself and lead her to push for these humane
treatments. Raised money and established 32 hospitals instead of asylums
General Paresis - Answer✔"syphilis of the brain": discovered that if syphilitic patients were
treated early enough that the normally resultant brain degeneration would cease. First time
brain linked to mental disorders and discovered that organic factors could product mental
disorders.
Mesmerism - Answer✔coined by Mesmer.... believed mental disturbances could be treated
with magnetic forces. Debunked but first link to hypnosis used for mental disorder.
Nancy School - Answer✔First organized school of thought that hypothesized that hypnotism
and hysteria were related. Believed hysteria could be removed through hypnosis
Freud - Answer✔First person who attempted to answer how psychologically based mental
disorders developed.
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