PSYCHOPATHOLOGY EXAM 1
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Describe how a psychological disorder is defined/understood and what is
psychopathology? - Correct Answers -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 Answers -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 Answers -
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 Answers -Clinical &
counseling psychologists either a Ph.D. or Psy.D.
Psychiatrist: M.D.
MFT & mental health counselors
Mass Hysteria - Correct Answers -demonstrates the phenomenon of emotion contagion
in which the experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us.
Paracelus suggested that.. - Correct Answers -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 Answers -Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of
modern medicine.
Humeral theory of medicine
Somatoform disorders
John P.Grey
Erin Kraeplin
Hippocrates - Correct Answers -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 Answers
-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 Answers -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 Answers -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 Answers -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
Answers -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 Answers -Asserts that most psychiatric disorders result
from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
Describe how a psychological disorder is defined/understood and what is
psychopathology? - Correct Answers -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 Answers -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 Answers -
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 Answers -Clinical &
counseling psychologists either a Ph.D. or Psy.D.
Psychiatrist: M.D.
MFT & mental health counselors
Mass Hysteria - Correct Answers -demonstrates the phenomenon of emotion contagion
in which the experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us.
Paracelus suggested that.. - Correct Answers -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 Answers -Greek physician, Hippocrates, thought to be the father of
modern medicine.
Humeral theory of medicine
Somatoform disorders
John P.Grey
Erin Kraeplin
Hippocrates - Correct Answers -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 Answers
-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 Answers -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 Answers -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 Answers -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
Answers -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 Answers -Asserts that most psychiatric disorders result
from a combination of genetic vulnerability and negative environmental stressors
