Mental Disorder - Answer-Psychological symptoms or behavioral patterns that reflect an underlying dysfunction that is not an expected response to common stressors
Mental Illness - Answer-A mental health condition that negatively affects a person's emotions, thinking, behavior, relationships, or ...
Abnormal Psychology Exam #1
Questions and Answers
Mental Disorder - Answer-Psychological symptoms or behavioral patterns that reflect an
underlying dysfunction that is not an expected response to common stressors
Mental Illness - Answer-A mental health condition that negatively affects a person's
emotions, thinking, behavior, relationships, or overall functioning
What factors do mental health professionals take into consideration when determining
the cause of a condition? - Answer-Biological, psychological, social, and socio-cultural
factors
Ex: Childhood, environment, trauma, medications, relationships
What are the 4 major factors in judging psychopathology? - Answer-Distress, deviance,
dysfunction, dangerousness
What does NAMI stand for and what campaign did they put out? - Answer-National
Alliance on Mental Illness
"You Are Not Alone" campaign
How did prehistoric and ancient peoples treat mental illness? - Answer-Trephining and
exorcism
In the middle ages, how did monks treat mental illness? - Answer-Rest, compassion,
and prayer
Abnormal behavior was seen as what during the 15th-17th centuries? - Answer-
Demonic possession or witchcraft
How were the mentally ill treated in asylums during the 14th-16th centuries? - Answer-
Chained, caged, starved, whipped, treated like animals
What influenced Freud's technique of psychoanalysis? - Answer-Cathartic Method: a
therapeutic use of verbal expression to release pent-up emotional conflicts
What does the recovery model assume about mental health? - Answer-Healing involves
separating one's identity from illness and developing the ability to cope with symptoms
Self-acceptance and regaining belief in oneself is vital
Recovery involves learning about one's capabilities, talents, and finding coping to help
engage in new life roles
, Establishing or strengthening social connections can facilitate healing
Understanding that barriers can be overcome
What makes all psychological models limited? - Answer-human behavior is too complex
Name the three main parts of the human brain associated with dimension one - Answer-
forebrain, prefrontal cortex, the limbic system
What are the four types of psychotropic medications? - Answer-anti-anxiety, anti-
psychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers
Psychosurgery included what type of procedure? - Answer-transorbital lobotomy
Free Association - Answer-Therapeutic technique in which clients are asked to say
whatever comes to mind for the purpose of revealing their unconscious thoughts
Transference - Answer-Process by which a client reenacts early conflicts by applying to
the analyst feelings and attitudes that the person has toward significant others
What are the three types of exposure therapies? - Answer-flooding, graduated
exposure, systematic desensitization
What are the beliefs of the Family Systems Model? - Answer-Personality development
strongly influenced by family characteristics
-Learned through parental/other family member interaction
Mental illness can reflect unhealthy family dynamics and poor communication
-Cause of mental disorders is within family system, not individual
Therapy must focus on family system, not just individual
-Treatment only effective if whole family actively participates
What does Group Therapy's environment provide? - Answer-Opportunity for clients to
see how their behavior affects others
Opportunity for group members to develop new/better communication skills, social
skills, insights
Opportunity for group members to feel less isolated, less stigmatized about problems
Opportunity to receive strong social and emotional support
What are the 4 major sociocultural factors? - Answer-gender, socioeconomic class,
acculturative stress, and race/ethnicity
Acculturative Stress - Answer-The psychological, physical, and social pressures
experienced by individuals who are adapting to a new culture
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