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Abnormal Psychology - Exam 1 Study Questions and Answers 2024 WHAT ARE THE 4D'SOF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR? - Ans - 1. deviant 2. distress 3. dysfunctional 4. danger what is deviant - Ans - occurs infrequently in person's culture/community what is distress - Ans - causes the person or others psychological pain what is dysfunction - Ans - interferes with person's ability to maintain relationships, life or job what is danger - Ans - physically harmful to themselves or others WHAT ARE THE 4 ANCIENT HUMOURS - Ans - blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm what was the ancient name and characteristic for blood - Ans - 1. Sanguine 2 courageous, hopeful and amorous what was the ancient name and characteristic for yellow bile - Ans - 1. choleric 2. easily angered, bad tempered what was the ancient name and characteristic for black bile - Ans - 1. melancolic 2. despondent sleepless, irritable what was the ancient name and characteristics fro phlegm - Ans - 1 phlegmatic 2. calm, unemotional WHAT WERE THE SWING IN VIEWS AND TREATMENTS FOR PSYCHOPATHOLOGY FROM THE STONE AGE? - Ans - views? work of evil spirits Treatment? trephination and exorcisms what were the views and treatments for psychopathology from the Greek and romans - Ans - views? illnesses had natural causes Treatment? rebalance the 4 humors what were the views and treatments for psychopathology from the middle ages - Ans - views? demonology returns treatment? prayer, holy objects , confinement, and exporcisms what were the views and treatments from psychopathology from the Renaissance - Ans - views? bodily functions, psychic or mental causes treatments? hypnosis, asylums WHAT IS MORAL TREATMENT - Ans - humane type of care HOW DOES A MORAL TREATMENT DIFFER FROM EARLIER ASYLUM CONDITIONS - Ans - asylums were made to remove the mentally ill from the general population. provided very little treatment. moral treatment, people were treated DURING WHAT TIME PERIDO WAS MORAL TREATMENT EMPHASIZED IN - Ans - during the 1th century WHAT IS MASS MADNESS? - Ans - abnormal behavior increased. mass hysteria WHEN WAS MASS MADNESS COMMON - Ans - during the middle ages WHAT IS TARANTISM? - Ans - victims of tarantula's spirit which led to raving, jumping, dancing and convulsions WHAT IS LYCANTHROPY - Ans - a person has been transformed into a demonic animal WHAT ARE THE TWO COMPETITIVE PERSPECTIVES ON PSYCOPATIHOLOGY IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY - Ans - Somatogenic and the psychogenic perspective WHAT IS the somatogenic perspective ? - Ans - abnormal functioning has physical causes WHAT IS the psychogenic perspective ? - Ans - abnormal functioning has psychological causes WHO WAS HIPPOCRATES? - Ans - known as the father of modern medicine WHAT WAS HIPPOCRATES CONTRIBUTION TO PSYCOPATHOLOGY - Ans - created therapeutic environments WHO WAS PHILIPPE PINEL and what was his contribution to psychopathology - Ans - from france, introduced an alternative to asylums WHO WAS DORTHEA DIX? - Ans - from the united states. reformed the attitudes about mental illnesses, established more than 30 hospitals WHO WAS KRAEPELIN? - Ans - father of psychiatric classification, contributor to the biological model WHAT IS THE FUNCTION FOR THE FOREBRAIN (LIMBIC SYSTEM) - Ans - emotions and impulses HOW DOES THE BRAIN'S STRUCTURE DIFFER IN TERMS OF COMPLEXITY - Ans - moving from the brainstem to the cortical or from the outside of the brain causes complexity and causes plasticity. WHAT IS A GENOTYPE - Ans - your inherited genetic composition WHAT IS A PHENOTYPE - Ans - how your genotype is expressed/ activated HOW DO METHYL AND HISTONE MODIFY GENE EXPRESSION - Ans - methyl is a offion gene switch and a histone is the dimension or volume WHAT ARE THE 4 TYPES OF DISTORTED THINKING COVERED IN LECTURE? - Ans - 1. all or nothing 2. jumping to conclusions 3. magnification/ minimizing 4. emotional reasoning WHAT ARE THE 3 AREAS OF DISTORTED THINKING FOR BECK - Ans - self, future, world ROGERS THERAPY IS CALLED __:? - Ans - client- centered therapy HOW ARE CONDITIONS OF WORTH PROBLEMATIC? - Ans - create anxiety and depression WHAT ARE THREE COMPONENTS OF A SUPPORTIVE CLIMATE - Ans - unconditional positive climate accurate empathy genuineness WHAT IS T. SZASZ'S CRITIQUE OF ABNORMALITY - Ans - Are we really helping or are we trying to find a way to have a cultural norm ACCORDING TO THE SOCIOCULTURAL MODEL, PSYCHOPATHOLOGY IS CAUSED BY WHAT - Ans - norms and roles in family and WHAT IS TRIANGULATION - Ans - team up against another, ex: mother and father against the child or child and mother against the father. xsxAGP WHAT ARE THE 2 DIMENSIONS OF THE FAMILY CIRCUMPLEX THAT CAN HELP. EXPLAIN PSYCOPATHOLOGY? - Ans - ENMESHED-DISENGAGED AND RIGID- CHAOTIC WHAT IS ENMESHED-DISENGAGED - Ans - YOU EITHER KNOW TOO MUCH ABOUT ANOTHER FAMILY MEMBER YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT OTHER MEMBERS IN THE FAMILY WHAT IS RIGID-CHAOTIC - Ans - YOU EITHER HAVE A VERY STRUCTURED ROUTINE OR AN UNSTRUCTURED ROUTINE WHICH MODELS ARE DETERMINISTIC? - Ans - PSYCHODYNAMIC MODEL WHICH MODELS EMPHASIZE FREE WILL - Ans - HUMANISTIC-EXISTENTIAL MODEL WHICH MODELS HAVE STRONG RESERACH SUPPORT - Ans - BIOLOGICAL AND COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY WHAT SI THE LIFETIME PREVALENCE RATE FOR HAVING A DISORDER - Ans - 50% WHAT ARE THE MOST COMMONLY DIAGNOSED GROUP OF DISORDERS - Ans - ANXIETY MOOD AND SUBSTANCE DISORDERS WHAT IS THE MEDIAN AGE OF ONSET FOR DISORDERS - Ans - 14 HOW DOES THE AGE OF ONSET FOR ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION DIFFER - Ans - AGE FOR ANXIETY IS 11 AGE FOR DEPRESSION IS 30 ANXIETY IS ESPECIALLY COMORBID WITH WHAT TWO DISORDERS - Ans - BIPOLAR AND DIPRESSION SUBSTANCE ABUSE IS COMORBIED WITH - Ans - ALOT OF THINGS WHEN POPLE HAVE COMORBID DISORDERS, THE DISORDERS TEND TO BE 1 IN SEVERITY AND MORE 2 TO TREAT - Ans - HIGHER SEVERITY AND HARDER TO TREAT WHAT ARE COMMON RIST FACTORS? - Ans - GENDER, RACE & ETHNICITY, NEUROTICISM, AGE, SES, QUALITY AND QUANTITY OF SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS AND LOCUS OF CONTROL what are the three types of aces - Ans - ABUSE, NEGLECT AND HOUSEHOLD DEPLOYMENT how are the ACE's related to disorders - Ans - THE MORE ACE'S YOU HAVE THE MORE VOLNURALBLE AND GREATER RISK YOU ARE AT HAVING A DISORDER with regards to the MMPI-2, what are the 2 types of scales that are measured? - Ans - SELF-REPORT AND EHAVIOUR With regards to the MMPI-2, how are the results typically assessed and presented - Ans - 550 SELF STATEMENTS EITHER TRUE OR FALSE. IF YOU SCORE ABOVE 70 YOU ARE CONSIDERED DEVIANT , BY LOOKING AT THE RESPONSE ONE CAN PROFILE PROBLEMS OR HEALTH what are the common psychophysiological test - Ans - ELECTROCARDIOGRAM, GALVANIC SKIN CONDUCTANCE, EEG AND POLYGRAPH how do these psychophysiological test help assess psychopathology - Ans - IDENTIFIES SIGNS OF STRESS OR ANXIETY what are 4 common neuroimaging tests - Ans - CT, MRI, FMRI, PET what kind of test is the bender visual- motor gestalt test? - Ans - NEUROPHYSIOLOGICAL TEST what does the Bender visual motor gestalt test consist of - Ans - THE PATIENT IS ASKED TO COPY THE PICTURE THAT IS BEING PRESENTED. STUDIES THE ABILITY TO FOCUS ON SOMETHING AND PROPERLY EXECUTE IT what is the most common way to assess overall functioning wit the DSM-5 - Ans - WHO-DAS 2.0 what are the areas of functioning that the DSM-5 assesses - Ans - COGNITION, MOBILITY, SELF-CARE, GETTING ALONG. LIFE ACTIVITIES AND PARTICIPATION what are the core ways that diagnosing can cause harm? - Ans - MISDIAGNOSIS, LABELING AND STIGMA what are 3 steps of systematic desensitization therapy - Ans - Learning relaxation skills Construct a fear hierarchy Confront feared situations what model does the systematic desensitization therapy come from - Ans - COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THERAPY what are the ABCDE's of Ellis rational restructuring therapy - Ans - A= ACTIVATING EVENT B= DISTORTED BELIEF C= CONSEQUENCES OF BELIEF D= DISPUTE BELIEF E= EVALUATE CONSEQUENCES what model Ellis rational restructuring therapy come from - Ans - MOSTLY COGNITIVE BUT ALSO USES THE BEHAVIORAL MODEL what are the 4 common factors of treatment effectiveness - Ans - EXTRA THERAPEUTIC FACTORS , EXPECTANCY , THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, SYSTEMATIC TECHNIQUE which 2 factors are most responsible for treatment effectiveness - Ans - THERAPEUTIC RELATIONSHIP, AND EXTRA THERAPEUTIC FACTORS what are three things therapists can do to enhance the effectiveness of treatment - Ans - THERAPY THAT MATCHES THE CLIENT INVITE AND USE EXTRA-THERAPEUTIC FCTORS ACTIVE LISTENING 
