Psychopathology Exam 2025 With
100% Correct Answers
Describe how a psychological disorder is defined/understood and what is psychopathology? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Dysfunction in psychological, biological or developmental processes that
causes personal distress and is Atypical or not a culturally expected response.
The science of psychopathology is done by mental health professionals that are united in the
scientist-practitioner framework.
How do you go about giving a clinical description of a client - understand each term? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Begins with presenting the problem
clinical description
describe prevalence and incidence of disorders
describe onset of symptoms
state specifiers (course of disorders, severity)
Prognosis
What were the initial supernatural theories of abnormal behavior ? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔People increasingly turned to magic and sorcery to solve their problems. People
assumed that individuals possessed by evil spirits were responsible for misfortune of
townspeople. Treatments included exorcism, shaving a cross on victims head. Snake pits were
also used to scare a spirit out of someone. Movement of moon and stars led to definition of
lunatic.
Describe the varying practices of psychopathology. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Clinical & counseling
psychologists either a Ph.D. or Psy.D.
Psychiatrist: M.D.
MFT & mental health counselors
,Mass Hysteria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔demonstrates the phenomenon of emotion contagion in
which the experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us.
Paracelus suggested that.. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔movements of the sun and stars had
profound effects on people's psychological functioning. Said that the gravitational effect of the
moon on bodily fluids could be a possible cause for mental disorders. This theory inspired the
word LUNATIC. Still common with followers of astrology.
What were the initial theories of the biological tradition?(e.g., Grey, Hippocrates....using the
information on your worksheet can be helpful to review and guide you on where to look in
text)? Be able to correctly place the theories of supernatural from the biological traditions. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of modern
medicine.
Humeral theory of medicine
Somatoform disorders
John P.Grey
Erin Kraeplin
Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of
modern medicine. He considered the brain to be the seat of wisdom, consciousness,
intelligence, and emotion. He believed all psychological disorders could be treated. Disorders
involving these would then be logically located in the brain. Also recognized the importance of
interpersonal interactions on psychology.
Hippocratic-Galenic approach and the Humoral Theory of Disorders. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔four bodily fluids or humors:
- blood (heart), sanguine - cheerful and optimistic
- black bile (spleen) melancholic - depression
- yellow bile (liver) phlegmatic personality - sluggish, apathetic, calm
, - phlegm (brain) choleric - hot tempered
first example of associating psychological disorders with chemical imbalance.
Somatoform disorders - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔physical symptoms appear to be the result of a
medical problem for which no physical cause can be found.
hysteron (hysteria) - greek for uterus, assumed this only happened in women.
John P. Grey - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Causes of insanity were always physical. Therefore
mentally ill patients should be treated as physically ill. Because of this, conditions in hospitals
greatly improved in order to help treat these disorders.
Erin Kraeplin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔one of the first to distinguish among various psychological
disorders, seeing that each may have a different age of onset and time course, with somewhat
different clusters of presenting symptoms and probably a different cause.
difference between one-dimensional vs. multidimensional approaches - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔One dimensional: psychopathology is caused by a single cause.
multidimensional: This perspective on causality is called systemic because it implies that any
particular influence contributing to psychopathology cannot be considered out of context
(biology and behavior of individual including cognitive, emotional, social and cultural
environment).
Diathesis-stress model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Asserts that most psychiatric disorders result
from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
Diathesis = a condition which makes someone susceptible to developing a disorder.
differences/similarities of diathesis-stress model and the reciprocal gene-environment model. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Similarities are genetic disposition and stressors both are present.
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Describe how a psychological disorder is defined/understood and what is psychopathology? -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Dysfunction in psychological, biological or developmental processes that
causes personal distress and is Atypical or not a culturally expected response.
The science of psychopathology is done by mental health professionals that are united in the
scientist-practitioner framework.
How do you go about giving a clinical description of a client - understand each term? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔Begins with presenting the problem
clinical description
describe prevalence and incidence of disorders
describe onset of symptoms
state specifiers (course of disorders, severity)
Prognosis
What were the initial supernatural theories of abnormal behavior ? - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔People increasingly turned to magic and sorcery to solve their problems. People
assumed that individuals possessed by evil spirits were responsible for misfortune of
townspeople. Treatments included exorcism, shaving a cross on victims head. Snake pits were
also used to scare a spirit out of someone. Movement of moon and stars led to definition of
lunatic.
Describe the varying practices of psychopathology. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Clinical & counseling
psychologists either a Ph.D. or Psy.D.
Psychiatrist: M.D.
MFT & mental health counselors
,Mass Hysteria - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔demonstrates the phenomenon of emotion contagion in
which the experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us.
Paracelus suggested that.. - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔movements of the sun and stars had
profound effects on people's psychological functioning. Said that the gravitational effect of the
moon on bodily fluids could be a possible cause for mental disorders. This theory inspired the
word LUNATIC. Still common with followers of astrology.
What were the initial theories of the biological tradition?(e.g., Grey, Hippocrates....using the
information on your worksheet can be helpful to review and guide you on where to look in
text)? Be able to correctly place the theories of supernatural from the biological traditions. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of modern
medicine.
Humeral theory of medicine
Somatoform disorders
John P.Grey
Erin Kraeplin
Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of
modern medicine. He considered the brain to be the seat of wisdom, consciousness,
intelligence, and emotion. He believed all psychological disorders could be treated. Disorders
involving these would then be logically located in the brain. Also recognized the importance of
interpersonal interactions on psychology.
Hippocratic-Galenic approach and the Humoral Theory of Disorders. - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔four bodily fluids or humors:
- blood (heart), sanguine - cheerful and optimistic
- black bile (spleen) melancholic - depression
- yellow bile (liver) phlegmatic personality - sluggish, apathetic, calm
, - phlegm (brain) choleric - hot tempered
first example of associating psychological disorders with chemical imbalance.
Somatoform disorders - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔physical symptoms appear to be the result of a
medical problem for which no physical cause can be found.
hysteron (hysteria) - greek for uterus, assumed this only happened in women.
John P. Grey - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Causes of insanity were always physical. Therefore
mentally ill patients should be treated as physically ill. Because of this, conditions in hospitals
greatly improved in order to help treat these disorders.
Erin Kraeplin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔one of the first to distinguish among various psychological
disorders, seeing that each may have a different age of onset and time course, with somewhat
different clusters of presenting symptoms and probably a different cause.
difference between one-dimensional vs. multidimensional approaches - CORRECT
ANSWER✔✔One dimensional: psychopathology is caused by a single cause.
multidimensional: This perspective on causality is called systemic because it implies that any
particular influence contributing to psychopathology cannot be considered out of context
(biology and behavior of individual including cognitive, emotional, social and cultural
environment).
Diathesis-stress model - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Asserts that most psychiatric disorders result
from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
Diathesis = a condition which makes someone susceptible to developing a disorder.
differences/similarities of diathesis-stress model and the reciprocal gene-environment model. -
CORRECT ANSWER✔✔Similarities are genetic disposition and stressors both are present.
