Psych 2490 - Test #1 questions with answers
What is abnormal behaviour? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Statistical
infreuency
-Personal distress
-Personal dysfunction
-Violation of norms
-diagnosis by an expert
What is not a criterion of abnormal behaviour? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔inappropriate behaviour
What is considered "appropriate" differs across? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔time and location ex) homosexuality
Psychological abnormality - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Behaviour,
speech or thought that impairs a person's ability to function in a way
that is generally expected of them in the context where the unusual
functioning is occuring
,Trephination - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔prehistoric practice of
chipping a hole into a person's skull, was an early form of surgury,
possibly intended to let out evil spirits
Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Ancient physician who
rejected demonism
-disorders were from natural causes
-(mental) health dependednt on balance of 4 humours
What are the four humours? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Blood,
Yellow bile, black bile and phlegm
What were you labelled as if you expressed any abnormal behaviour -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔witch
Exorcism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔removal of devil in the
individual - increase severity until evil was removed/died
What was the commonality that Paracelsus, Teresa of Avila and St.
Vincient de Paul had? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔More naturalistic
approach
, Where were mental asylums more common? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔throughout Europe and North America
Mental hygiene movement - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔protecting
and providing humane treatment for mentally ill patients
Philippe Pinel - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔helped shift from
containment to humanitarian treatment
-cruelty vs humane treatment vacillated until early 1900s
How did mental disorders come to be understood? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔disruptions in the nervous system
Benedict Morel - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-first "genetic" theory of
degeneration
-deviations from normal functioning are transmitted by heredity
processes
Charles Darwin - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔origin of species
Emil Kraepelin - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-"father of modern
psychiatry"
-1st to start classifying mental health problems
What is abnormal behaviour? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Statistical
infreuency
-Personal distress
-Personal dysfunction
-Violation of norms
-diagnosis by an expert
What is not a criterion of abnormal behaviour? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔inappropriate behaviour
What is considered "appropriate" differs across? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔time and location ex) homosexuality
Psychological abnormality - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Behaviour,
speech or thought that impairs a person's ability to function in a way
that is generally expected of them in the context where the unusual
functioning is occuring
,Trephination - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔prehistoric practice of
chipping a hole into a person's skull, was an early form of surgury,
possibly intended to let out evil spirits
Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Ancient physician who
rejected demonism
-disorders were from natural causes
-(mental) health dependednt on balance of 4 humours
What are the four humours? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Blood,
Yellow bile, black bile and phlegm
What were you labelled as if you expressed any abnormal behaviour -
CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔witch
Exorcism - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔removal of devil in the
individual - increase severity until evil was removed/died
What was the commonality that Paracelsus, Teresa of Avila and St.
Vincient de Paul had? - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔More naturalistic
approach
, Where were mental asylums more common? - CORRECT ANSWERS
✔✔throughout Europe and North America
Mental hygiene movement - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔protecting
and providing humane treatment for mentally ill patients
Philippe Pinel - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔helped shift from
containment to humanitarian treatment
-cruelty vs humane treatment vacillated until early 1900s
How did mental disorders come to be understood? - CORRECT
ANSWERS ✔✔disruptions in the nervous system
Benedict Morel - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-first "genetic" theory of
degeneration
-deviations from normal functioning are transmitted by heredity
processes
Charles Darwin - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔origin of species
Emil Kraepelin - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-"father of modern
psychiatry"
-1st to start classifying mental health problems
