PSYS 318 EXAM 1 QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
4 D's of abnormality: deviance, distress, dysfunction, danger
1. Prehistoric cultures probably believed that all events around + within them
resulted from the actions of magical, sometimes sinister, beings who controlled
the world
Abnormal behavior was typically interpreted as a victory by: evil spirits
2. Treatment for abnormalities in early societies was often: exorcism
3. an ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a
circular section of the skull to treat abnormal behavior; skulls recovered from
the Stone Age show signs of this
-the purpose of opening the skull was to release the evil spirits that were
supposedly causing the problem: trephination
4. Greek and Roman (500 BCE-500 CE) Hippocrates believed that abnormal
behavior was caused by an imbalance of 4 fluids or humors:: blood, yellow bile, black
bile, phlegm
5. Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1350 CE): large numbers of people apparently
shared delusions + hallucinations: mass madness
6. people were jumping, dancing, + going into convulsions. It was thought
that these people had been bitten by wolf spiders (what we call tarantulas) +
sought to cure themselves by performing a dance called a tarantella (Middle
Ages): tarantism (St Vitus' dance)
7. form of mass madness in which people thought they were possessed by
wolves or other animals; they acted wolflike + imagined that fur was growing
all over their bodies (Middle Ages): lycanthropy
8. Renaissance (1400-1700); a place that was the forerunner of today's com-
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, munity mental health programs + continues to demonstrate that people with
psychological disorders can respond to loving care + respectful treatment: Gheel
9. institutions whose primary purpose was to care for people with mental ill-
ness; they became virtual prisons where patients were held in filthy conditions
+ treated with unspeakable cruelty: asylums
10. (19th century) Philippe Pinel + William Tuke believed that people with mental
dysfunction should be treated humanely with moral guidance + respect: moral
treatment
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4 D's of abnormality: deviance, distress, dysfunction, danger
1. Prehistoric cultures probably believed that all events around + within them
resulted from the actions of magical, sometimes sinister, beings who controlled
the world
Abnormal behavior was typically interpreted as a victory by: evil spirits
2. Treatment for abnormalities in early societies was often: exorcism
3. an ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a
circular section of the skull to treat abnormal behavior; skulls recovered from
the Stone Age show signs of this
-the purpose of opening the skull was to release the evil spirits that were
supposedly causing the problem: trephination
4. Greek and Roman (500 BCE-500 CE) Hippocrates believed that abnormal
behavior was caused by an imbalance of 4 fluids or humors:: blood, yellow bile, black
bile, phlegm
5. Europe in the Middle Ages (500-1350 CE): large numbers of people apparently
shared delusions + hallucinations: mass madness
6. people were jumping, dancing, + going into convulsions. It was thought
that these people had been bitten by wolf spiders (what we call tarantulas) +
sought to cure themselves by performing a dance called a tarantella (Middle
Ages): tarantism (St Vitus' dance)
7. form of mass madness in which people thought they were possessed by
wolves or other animals; they acted wolflike + imagined that fur was growing
all over their bodies (Middle Ages): lycanthropy
8. Renaissance (1400-1700); a place that was the forerunner of today's com-
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15
, munity mental health programs + continues to demonstrate that people with
psychological disorders can respond to loving care + respectful treatment: Gheel
9. institutions whose primary purpose was to care for people with mental ill-
ness; they became virtual prisons where patients were held in filthy conditions
+ treated with unspeakable cruelty: asylums
10. (19th century) Philippe Pinel + William Tuke believed that people with mental
dysfunction should be treated humanely with moral guidance + respect: moral
treatment
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