Abnormal Psychology Test 1
Trephination -
✅Punching a hole in the brain to rid of demonic possession
Abnormal Psychology -
✅The branch of psychology that studies abnormal behavior and ways to help people affected by
psychological disorders
Medical Model -
✅Views abnormal behavior as symptoms of an underlying illness of brain disorder
What percent of Americans are affected at some point by a diagnose-able mental disorder -
✅46%
What percent of American adults experience a diagnose-able disorder in any given year? -
✅26%
What country has the highest percentage of diagnose-able psychological disorders? -
✅USA
Which gender is most likely to be affected by a disorder? -
✅Women
6 conclusions drawn by the US Surgeon General about mental health issues -
✅1) Mental health reflects both brain and environment
2) Effective treatments exist for most disorders
3) Prevention progress is slow
4) Many who need help don't get it
5) Best understood when social and cultural contexts are examined
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,6) Services must take racial minorities into account
Why are cultural norms important? -
✅Behavior that's normal in one culture may be abnormal in another
How does "white man's sickness" differ from "Indian sickness" to Native Americans? -
✅-White man's: outside of culture (ex. drugs/alcohol)
-Indian's: lack of harmony in tribal life
How does anxiety differ between Westerners and some Africans? -
✅-Westerners: paying a mortgage or losing a job
-Africans: fear of failure in procreation, in dreams, and complaints about witchcraft
How does depression differ between Far East and Western cultures? -
✅-Western: guilt or sadness
-Far East: emphasis on physical symptoms
Contrast view on mental disorders from Western and Native cultures -
✅-Western: explaining abnormal behaviors
-Native: invoke supernatural causes (ex. demons)
How does Filipino folk society explain psychological problems? -
✅Spirits influence or possess weak souls
What cultural movement facilitated a different view of the causes of mental disorders? -
✅Age of Enlightenment
Why did some Stone Age skeletons have holes in their skulls? -
✅Trephination
How did the ancient Greeks treat those who behaved abnormally? -
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, ✅-Sent to Temple of Aesculapius (god of healing)
-Rest, good diet, exercise
How did the ancient Greeks deal with those who couldn't be cured? -
✅driven from the temple by stoning
Who (from the Golden Age of Greece) challenged the belief that mental disorders were caused by
demons? -
✅Hippocrates
What contingency is associated with the health of body, according to Hippocrates? -
✅balance of the Humors
List the four humors -
✅1) Phlegm
2) Blood
3) Black Bile
4) Yellow Bile
What did Hippocrates believe caused depression? -
✅Overabundance of black bile
How did Hippocrates' views help contribute to modern explanations of mental disorders? -
✅Foreshadowed the view that abnormal behavior resulted from underlying biology
How did Hippocrates classify abnormal behaviors? -
✅1) Melancholia
2) Mania
3) Phrenitis
Why did the belief that abnormal behavior was caused by evil spirits surge in the Middles Ages? -
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Trephination -
✅Punching a hole in the brain to rid of demonic possession
Abnormal Psychology -
✅The branch of psychology that studies abnormal behavior and ways to help people affected by
psychological disorders
Medical Model -
✅Views abnormal behavior as symptoms of an underlying illness of brain disorder
What percent of Americans are affected at some point by a diagnose-able mental disorder -
✅46%
What percent of American adults experience a diagnose-able disorder in any given year? -
✅26%
What country has the highest percentage of diagnose-able psychological disorders? -
✅USA
Which gender is most likely to be affected by a disorder? -
✅Women
6 conclusions drawn by the US Surgeon General about mental health issues -
✅1) Mental health reflects both brain and environment
2) Effective treatments exist for most disorders
3) Prevention progress is slow
4) Many who need help don't get it
5) Best understood when social and cultural contexts are examined
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,6) Services must take racial minorities into account
Why are cultural norms important? -
✅Behavior that's normal in one culture may be abnormal in another
How does "white man's sickness" differ from "Indian sickness" to Native Americans? -
✅-White man's: outside of culture (ex. drugs/alcohol)
-Indian's: lack of harmony in tribal life
How does anxiety differ between Westerners and some Africans? -
✅-Westerners: paying a mortgage or losing a job
-Africans: fear of failure in procreation, in dreams, and complaints about witchcraft
How does depression differ between Far East and Western cultures? -
✅-Western: guilt or sadness
-Far East: emphasis on physical symptoms
Contrast view on mental disorders from Western and Native cultures -
✅-Western: explaining abnormal behaviors
-Native: invoke supernatural causes (ex. demons)
How does Filipino folk society explain psychological problems? -
✅Spirits influence or possess weak souls
What cultural movement facilitated a different view of the causes of mental disorders? -
✅Age of Enlightenment
Why did some Stone Age skeletons have holes in their skulls? -
✅Trephination
How did the ancient Greeks treat those who behaved abnormally? -
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, ✅-Sent to Temple of Aesculapius (god of healing)
-Rest, good diet, exercise
How did the ancient Greeks deal with those who couldn't be cured? -
✅driven from the temple by stoning
Who (from the Golden Age of Greece) challenged the belief that mental disorders were caused by
demons? -
✅Hippocrates
What contingency is associated with the health of body, according to Hippocrates? -
✅balance of the Humors
List the four humors -
✅1) Phlegm
2) Blood
3) Black Bile
4) Yellow Bile
What did Hippocrates believe caused depression? -
✅Overabundance of black bile
How did Hippocrates' views help contribute to modern explanations of mental disorders? -
✅Foreshadowed the view that abnormal behavior resulted from underlying biology
How did Hippocrates classify abnormal behaviors? -
✅1) Melancholia
2) Mania
3) Phrenitis
Why did the belief that abnormal behavior was caused by evil spirits surge in the Middles Ages? -
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