PSYCHOLOGY 103-MIDTERM EXAM WITH
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS,ACTUAL EXAM 100% [GRADED A+]
Ways of defining psychopathology (e.g., "four D's"). - ANS✔✔------Deviance
- abnormal behavior/thoughts/emotions different from societies ideas about
proper functioning
-Distress (to self and/or to others)
-Dysfunction
- interferes with daily functioning including inability, efficiency, and
maladaptation
-Danger (to self and/or to others)
,Characteristics of "eccentrics" - ANS✔✔------ a person who deviates from
common behavior patterns or displays odd/ whimsical characteristics.
- nonconformity, creativity, strong curiosity, idealism, extreme interests and
hobbies, lifelong awareness of being different, high intelligence, outspokenness,
non competitiveness, unusual eating/living habits, disinterest in others
opinions/company, mischievous, non marriage, oldest or only child,
.
-patients were under power of suggestion - known has hypnotism today
Trephination - ANS✔✔------people in prehistoric/ stone ages believed in
magical/sinister beings that would sometimes control a humans body.
-operation of a stone instrument cut a circle into the skull to release the evil
spirits causing hallucinations.
Humoral theory - ANS✔✔------ The imbalance of the four fluids throughout
the body
-yellow bile (choleric) (excess: caused mania) - irritable/ short tempered
-black bile (excess: caused melancholia) - analytical quiet
-Blood (sanguine) - optimistic/ social
-Phlegm (flegmatic) - relaxed/ peaceful
Asylums - ANS✔✔------institutions to take care for people with mental
illnesses.
-once the asylums began to overflow with people it became a virtual prison for
the patients inside.
- treatments includes being locked in cribs (restraint)
,Hysteria - ANS✔✔------mysterious body ailments that had no physical basis.
women had neurological issues - couldn't see, couldn't walk etc.
- was said to be a loss of flow in the body usually thought to be from having a
messed up uterus.
-John Charcot used hypnosis on patients with hysteria, but hypnosis was a fraud
because he was using actors to show that hypnosis worked.
Phrenology - ANS✔✔------ you can tell a persons personality by the bumps
on their head
- a machine would measure your head to see if you were a psychopath.
Mesmerism - ANS✔✔------French scam artist. He had a clinic in Paris where
patients suffering from hysterical disorders/body ailments
Demonological view - ANS✔✔------during the middle ages in Europe,
abnormal behavior was seen as a conflict between good and evil (satan's
influence)
- exorcisms were used to get demons out and so was torture.
Moral treatment - ANS✔✔-----"the unchaining of the Insane" in the 1800's
- the mentally ill had lost their moral training - so they would take them
outside/excersise but also reeducate them to put them back into society.
- moral treatment is the predecessor to state hospitals
.
, General paresis and malarial cure - ANS✔✔------Syphilis led to general
paresis, an irreversible disorder that was both mental and physical. Including
paralysis, and great delusions
- the Malarial Fever was so high that it was a cure and killed off syphilis
Psychogenic view of mental illness - ANS✔✔------ Main cause of abnormal
functioning is psychological.
- hypnotism and freuds psychoanalysis gave this attention.
Deinstitutionalization: rationale and outcome - ANS✔✔------Antipsychotic,
antidepressant, and anti-anxiety drugs were created. (technically tranquilizer
drugs)
Somatogenic view of mental illness - ANS✔✔------physical causes are the
reason to abnormal psychological behaviors/functioning.
- started with imbalance of humors
- Rebrith in the 19th century
- Kraepelin argued that physical factors like fatigue were responsible for mental
disfunction
-Mental institution patients were given these drugs and when shown
improvement, immediately all state-hospitals were shut down, and patients
discharged.
-this was done for economical purposes, hospitals were a lot of money
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