Abnormal Psychology Test Questions and Correct Answers
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Abnormal Psychology
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Abnormal Psychology
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people developing schizophrenia→ received medical tx and then assessed the
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Abnormal Psychology Test Questions and
Correct Answers
Psychological Disorder
✓ ~~~ Psychological dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functioning
and a response that is not typical or culturally expected
Phobia
✓ ~~~ Psychological disorder characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object
os situation
Prevalence
✓ ~~~ Number of people with a certain disorder in the total population at any time
Incidence
✓ ~~~ Number of new cases of a disorder during a specific period
Course
✓ ~~~ Pattern of development and change of a disorder over time, could be chronic,
episodic or time-limited
Onset
✓ ~~~ The way in which a disorder shows itself, could be acute (suddenly) or insidious
(gradually)
Prognosis
, ✓ ~~~ Predicted development of a disorder over time
Etiology
✓ ~~~ Study of origins- why a disorder begins. Includes biological, physiological and
social dimensions
Treatment
✓ ~~~ If a new drug or treatment is successful in treating a disorder, it may give
insight into the causes of the disorder, however effect does not always imply cause
Demons & Witches
✓ ~~~ People blamed abnormal behavior on the evil acts of entities such as demons &
witches, continued into the 15th century
Stress & Melancholy
✓ ~~~ Reflected the view that psychological disorders were caused by mental or
emotional stress and were curable. Common remedies included rest, healthy
environment, potions etc.
Church condemned certain symptoms of depression and other disorders as sin
(acedia)
Charles VI
✓ ~~~ "The Mad King" French King went insane and killed several members of his
court, people believed this was due to some sort of outside evil power
Treatments for Possession
, ✓ ~~~ Exorcisms, confinements, beating, torture, shock therapy, hydrotherapy, people
hung over snake pits
Mass Hysteria
✓ ~~~ Large scale outbursts of bizarre behavior. Also known as Saint Vitus' Dance
and Trantism
Also happens in modern day- school example of 17 students and 4 teachers with no
physical abnormalities hospitalized
Emotion Contagion
✓ ~~~ Experience of an emotion can spread to those around us
Moon & Stars
✓ ~~~ Paracelsus ( Swiss physician) suggested that the movement of the moon &
stars had effects on psychological functioning (where the word lunatic derives from)
Biological Tradition
✓ ~~~ Belief that psychological disorders are biologically caused, the mind can
influence the body and the body can influence the mind
Hippocrates
✓ ~~~ Considered the father of western medicine, wrote Hippocratic Corpus,
suggested that psychological disorders could be treated like any other disease.
Thought that disorders could be caused by pathogens or head trauma or be
hereditary
Galen
, ✓ ~~~ Roman physician who went further into Hippocrates' ideas and developed the
Humoral Theory of disorders, first example of associating psychological disorders
with an internal chemical imbalance
Humoral Theory
✓ ~~~ Hippocrates believed that normal brain functioning was related to 4 bodily fluids
or humors- blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm. Blood came from the heart,
black bile from the spleen, phlegm from the brain and yellow bile from the liver.
Physicians believed that disease came from too much or too little of one or more of
the humors. Humors related to 4 basic qualities- heat, moisture, dryness and cold
(Greek conception.)
Treatment for Excess Humors
✓ ~~~ Regulating the environment to increase or decrease moisture, heat, dryness or
cold.
Rest, nutrition
Bleeding/ bloodletting- blood removed form body often by leeches
Induced vomiting
Somatic Symptom Disorders
✓ ~~~ Disorders in which symptoms such as paralysis are the result of a problem for
which no physical cause can be found. Ancient societies believed these were only
prevalent in women and blamed them in a "wandering uterus"
Syphilis
✓ ~~~ In advanced syphilis, a bacterial microorganism enters the brain and causes
delusions of persecution, delusions of grandeur. Patients would deteriorate steadily,
becoming paralyzed and dying w/in 5 years of onset→ in 1825 it was designated the
disease of general paresis
Patients with malaria recovered more so than others , the fever "burned out" the
bacteria causing the psychosis- disease linked to curable infection
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