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PSYC 2490 Final Exam with accurate detailed solutions
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) - ✔✔The most broadly
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accepted system for identifying particular types of disorders
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International Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders
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(ICD-10) - ✔✔Used by practitioners, primarily used outside of North America
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Psychological abnormality - ✔✔refers to behaviour, speech, or thought that impairs the
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ability of a person to function in a way that is generally expected of him or her, in the
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context where the unusual functioning occurs.
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Mental illness - ✔✔is a term often used to convey the same meaning as psychological
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abnormality but it implies a medical rather than psychological cause
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Psychological disorder - ✔✔a specific manifestation of this impairment of functioning, as
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described by some set of criteria that have been established by a panel of experts
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Psychopathology - ✔✔to mean both the scientific study of psychological abnormality and || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the problems faced by people who suffer from such disorders
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Neurasthenia - ✔✔Is a condition that included many of the physical symptoms of
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depression and it is still frequently diagnosed in Asia, but this diagnosis has largely been
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abandoned in the West. || || ||
How we define abnormality - ✔✔culturally relative
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Represented of inferior species - ✔✔jews, homosexuality, gypsies or mentally retarded were
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persecuted, tortured or killed on the basis || || || || || ||
Clinical psychologists - ✔✔initially trained in general psychology then receiver graduate
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training in the application of this knowledge to the understanding, diagnosis and
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amelioration of disorders of thinking and behaviour || || || || || ||
Treatment method of clinical psychologists - ✔✔primarily involve psychological
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interventions of one kind or another || || || || ||
Psychiatrists - ✔✔trained in medicine prior to doing specialized training in dealing with
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mental disorders ||
Sexual Sterilization Act - ✔✔Individuals who were deemed "feebleminded". "mentally
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deficient", or "mentally ill" were to be involuntarily sterilized to prevent deterioration of the
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intellectual Lebel of the general population || || || || ||
Supernatural causes - ✔✔Causes beyond the understanding of ordinary mortals, such as
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the influence of gods, demons or magic
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Psychological dysfunction- various historical periods - ✔✔Either possession by demons or
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the witchcraft of evil people
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Natural causes - ✔✔Causes that can be observed and examined
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The mentally ill of Africa's Ivory Coast - ✔✔A man named Koffi's who was struggling with
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schizophrenia. His community believed that he was possessed by demons and chained him
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to a tree outside of the village for more than 10 years
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Trephination - ✔✔The prehistoric practice of chipping a hole into a person's skull, was an
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early from of surgery, possibly intended to let out evil spirits
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Hysteria - ✔✔A temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, usually as a result of
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emotionally upsetting experiences || ||
Hippocrates - ✔✔"Founder of Medicine", first to reject the theory of psychological problems
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caused by the intervention of gods or demons
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Plato - ✔✔Emphasized on sociocultural influences on thought and behaviour, and declared
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that mentally ill people who commit crimes should not be held responsible, since they
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could not understand what they have done
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Aristotle - ✔✔Wrote extensively on mental disorders and on other aspects of psychological
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functioning
Mental hygiene movement - ✔✔Movement to treat mental patients more humanely and to
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view mental disorders as medical diseases
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Kraepelin - ✔✔Developed a scheme for classifying symptoms into discrete disorders that is
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followed even today || ||
GPI (General Paresis of the Insane) - ✔✔result from untreated infections by the syphilis
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spirochete
Somatogenesis - ✔✔the idea that psychopathology is caused by biological factors || || || || || || || || || ||
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - ✔✔A biomedical treatment in which electric shock is || || || || || || || || || || || ||
used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions
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PSYC 2490 Final Exam with accurate detailed solutions
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Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) - ✔✔The most broadly
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
accepted system for identifying particular types of disorders
|| || || || || || ||
International Classification of Mental and Behavioural Disorders
|| || || || || || ||
(ICD-10) - ✔✔Used by practitioners, primarily used outside of North America
|| || || || || || || || || ||
Psychological abnormality - ✔✔refers to behaviour, speech, or thought that impairs the
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
ability of a person to function in a way that is generally expected of him or her, in the
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context where the unusual functioning occurs.
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Mental illness - ✔✔is a term often used to convey the same meaning as psychological
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abnormality but it implies a medical rather than psychological cause
|| || || || || || || || ||
Psychological disorder - ✔✔a specific manifestation of this impairment of functioning, as
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
described by some set of criteria that have been established by a panel of experts
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
Psychopathology - ✔✔to mean both the scientific study of psychological abnormality and || || || || || || || || || || || ||
the problems faced by people who suffer from such disorders
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Neurasthenia - ✔✔Is a condition that included many of the physical symptoms of
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depression and it is still frequently diagnosed in Asia, but this diagnosis has largely been
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
abandoned in the West. || || ||
How we define abnormality - ✔✔culturally relative
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,2
Represented of inferior species - ✔✔jews, homosexuality, gypsies or mentally retarded were
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persecuted, tortured or killed on the basis || || || || || ||
Clinical psychologists - ✔✔initially trained in general psychology then receiver graduate
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
training in the application of this knowledge to the understanding, diagnosis and
|| || || || || || || || || || || ||
amelioration of disorders of thinking and behaviour || || || || || ||
Treatment method of clinical psychologists - ✔✔primarily involve psychological
|| || || || || || || || ||
interventions of one kind or another || || || || ||
Psychiatrists - ✔✔trained in medicine prior to doing specialized training in dealing with
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
mental disorders ||
Sexual Sterilization Act - ✔✔Individuals who were deemed "feebleminded". "mentally
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deficient", or "mentally ill" were to be involuntarily sterilized to prevent deterioration of the
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intellectual Lebel of the general population || || || || ||
Supernatural causes - ✔✔Causes beyond the understanding of ordinary mortals, such as
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the influence of gods, demons or magic
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Psychological dysfunction- various historical periods - ✔✔Either possession by demons or
|| || || || || || || || || || ||
the witchcraft of evil people
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Natural causes - ✔✔Causes that can be observed and examined
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The mentally ill of Africa's Ivory Coast - ✔✔A man named Koffi's who was struggling with
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schizophrenia. His community believed that he was possessed by demons and chained him
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to a tree outside of the village for more than 10 years
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, 2
Trephination - ✔✔The prehistoric practice of chipping a hole into a person's skull, was an
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
early from of surgery, possibly intended to let out evil spirits
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Hysteria - ✔✔A temporary loss of cognitive or motor functions, usually as a result of
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emotionally upsetting experiences || ||
Hippocrates - ✔✔"Founder of Medicine", first to reject the theory of psychological problems
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caused by the intervention of gods or demons
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Plato - ✔✔Emphasized on sociocultural influences on thought and behaviour, and declared
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that mentally ill people who commit crimes should not be held responsible, since they
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
could not understand what they have done
|| || || || || ||
Aristotle - ✔✔Wrote extensively on mental disorders and on other aspects of psychological
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
functioning
Mental hygiene movement - ✔✔Movement to treat mental patients more humanely and to
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
view mental disorders as medical diseases
|| || || || ||
Kraepelin - ✔✔Developed a scheme for classifying symptoms into discrete disorders that is
|| || || || || || || || || || || || ||
followed even today || ||
GPI (General Paresis of the Insane) - ✔✔result from untreated infections by the syphilis
|| || || || || || || || || || || || || ||
spirochete
Somatogenesis - ✔✔the idea that psychopathology is caused by biological factors || || || || || || || || || ||
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) - ✔✔A biomedical treatment in which electric shock is || || || || || || || || || || || ||
used to produce a cortical seizure accompanied by convulsions
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