PSYC 645 PROFESSIONAL TEST BANK 2026
VALIDATED QUESTIONS RELIABLE
ANSWERS
● What is the DSM-5-TR Answer: a manuel of mental disorders that
consists of agreed upon definitons and classifications of disorders
● The three characteristics of a psychological disorder mentioned in the
DSM-5-TR Answer: Personal distress, violation of social norms, and
disability and dysfunction
● What is personal distress (of the the characteristics of a disorder)
Answer: when a persons behavior causes signifcant personal agony (not
all disorders have this)
● What is disability (of the the characteristics of a disorder) Answer:
when an important area of life, such as work or school, is impaired
because of someones behavior
● What is dysfunction (of the the characteristics of a disorder) Answer:
when a developmental, psychological, and/or biological system is not
working as it should
, ● What is stigma (ehehe it sounds like sigma) Answer: Destructive
attiudes or beleifs held by society that are focused on groups that are
veiwed as different (most complex def. ever im such a chud)
● What is public stigma Answer: Negative and discriminatory attitudes
that society holds towards people with mental illnesses
● What is self stigma Answer: When someone with a diagnosis for a
mental illness internailies the negative societal opions of people with MI
● What is Structural Stigma Answer: Policies that, conciously AND/or
unconsiously, limit oppourtunities for people with mental illness in some
way
● what were asylums Answer: establishments with the purpose of
confining and "treating" those with mental illness
● Who was Philippe Pinel (I lowkey hate this guy) Answer: Came up
with the mind blowing concept of treating mentally ill patients with
dignity and kindness. He advocated for for humane asylum worker
behavior and made his own hospital centered on this practice, but it was
reserved for the upper class which is why i feel like this guy's ass
● Dorothea Dix (now SHE is the real baddie of the humane asylum
movement) Answer: She advocated for better treatment of asylum
patients after seeing how they were treated when working in jail
VALIDATED QUESTIONS RELIABLE
ANSWERS
● What is the DSM-5-TR Answer: a manuel of mental disorders that
consists of agreed upon definitons and classifications of disorders
● The three characteristics of a psychological disorder mentioned in the
DSM-5-TR Answer: Personal distress, violation of social norms, and
disability and dysfunction
● What is personal distress (of the the characteristics of a disorder)
Answer: when a persons behavior causes signifcant personal agony (not
all disorders have this)
● What is disability (of the the characteristics of a disorder) Answer:
when an important area of life, such as work or school, is impaired
because of someones behavior
● What is dysfunction (of the the characteristics of a disorder) Answer:
when a developmental, psychological, and/or biological system is not
working as it should
, ● What is stigma (ehehe it sounds like sigma) Answer: Destructive
attiudes or beleifs held by society that are focused on groups that are
veiwed as different (most complex def. ever im such a chud)
● What is public stigma Answer: Negative and discriminatory attitudes
that society holds towards people with mental illnesses
● What is self stigma Answer: When someone with a diagnosis for a
mental illness internailies the negative societal opions of people with MI
● What is Structural Stigma Answer: Policies that, conciously AND/or
unconsiously, limit oppourtunities for people with mental illness in some
way
● what were asylums Answer: establishments with the purpose of
confining and "treating" those with mental illness
● Who was Philippe Pinel (I lowkey hate this guy) Answer: Came up
with the mind blowing concept of treating mentally ill patients with
dignity and kindness. He advocated for for humane asylum worker
behavior and made his own hospital centered on this practice, but it was
reserved for the upper class which is why i feel like this guy's ass
● Dorothea Dix (now SHE is the real baddie of the humane asylum
movement) Answer: She advocated for better treatment of asylum
patients after seeing how they were treated when working in jail
