PSY 333 Exam 1 Study Guide: Foundations of Abnormal Psychology Review
Challenges in Studying Abnormal Psychology - correct answer ✔✔1. Complex and multifaceted
2. difficult to remain objective
3. must e aware of our own values, preconceived notions and stigma
Psychopathology - correct answer ✔✔Another word for Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Behavior - correct answer ✔✔characterized by personal distress, impairment, risk of
harm, disability, deviancy, violation of social norms and dysfunction
Wakefield's "harmful dysfunction" - correct answer ✔✔harmful = social
Dysfunction=evolutionary maladaptive
DSM V definition of a mental disorder - correct answer ✔✔a clinically significant disturbance in
an individual's cognition, emotion deregulation or behavior. Not simply a predictable or
culturally sanctioned response to a particular event.
Advantages of Classification - correct answer ✔✔Reliable and valid diagnosis
Communication between researchers and clinicians
Provision of information
Direction for services
Insurance reimbursement
Disadvantages of classification - correct answer ✔✔loss of information, discounting of individual
information, labeling
,Stigma - correct answer ✔✔A label applied to a group of people that distinguish them from
others. Label is linked to undesirable attributes (deemed by society). People with label are
sometimes discriminated against.
Types of Mental health professionals - correct answer ✔✔clinical psychologist
school psychologist
counseling psychologies
psychiatrists
psychoanalysts
social worker
mental health worker
psychopathologist
Treatment Options - correct answer ✔✔Hospitalization/inpatient care
medication,
outpatient care
day programs
group therapy
family therapy
individual therapy
Assessments:
diagnostic and psychoeduactional
History of Abnormal Psychology - correct answer ✔✔1. early demonology
2. early biological explanations
3. The dark ages
4. Development of asylums
, 5. Pinel's reforms
6. Moral treatment
7. Dorthea Dix
Hippocrates - correct answer ✔✔460-377 BC. Believed brain was the organ of consciousness
and that deviant thinking and behavior were indicators of some sort of brain pathology.
grouped mental disorders into three categories: mania, melancholia, and phrentis. Believed
mental health depended on the presence and balance of four humours.: blood, black bile,
yellow bile and phlegm.
The Dark Ages - correct answer ✔✔Time when demonology regained precedence over reason
when it came to explaining mental illness. Many "witches persecuted"
Development of Asylums - correct answer ✔✔15th and 16th centuries. Confinement of beggars
and the mentally ill. Bethlehem was an early example. Inhuman treatment prevalent.
Pinel's Reforms - correct answer ✔✔1745-1826. Removed shackles form patients in La Bicetre.
Moral Treatment - correct answer ✔✔Early 1800s. Patients had close contact with attendants.
lead lives as close to normal as possible, and takes responsibility for themselves within
constraints of disorder.
Dorothea Dix - correct answer ✔✔1802-1887. Saw plight on prisoners and patients in mental
hospitals and helped to see that 32 state hospitals were built.
Evolutio of contemporary thought - correct answer ✔✔Classical Times- Hipocrates, Galen.
Middle Ages- Vesalius, Sydenham
Early system of classification- Emil Kraeplein, Wilhelm Griesinger
Challenges in Studying Abnormal Psychology - correct answer ✔✔1. Complex and multifaceted
2. difficult to remain objective
3. must e aware of our own values, preconceived notions and stigma
Psychopathology - correct answer ✔✔Another word for Abnormal Psychology
Abnormal Behavior - correct answer ✔✔characterized by personal distress, impairment, risk of
harm, disability, deviancy, violation of social norms and dysfunction
Wakefield's "harmful dysfunction" - correct answer ✔✔harmful = social
Dysfunction=evolutionary maladaptive
DSM V definition of a mental disorder - correct answer ✔✔a clinically significant disturbance in
an individual's cognition, emotion deregulation or behavior. Not simply a predictable or
culturally sanctioned response to a particular event.
Advantages of Classification - correct answer ✔✔Reliable and valid diagnosis
Communication between researchers and clinicians
Provision of information
Direction for services
Insurance reimbursement
Disadvantages of classification - correct answer ✔✔loss of information, discounting of individual
information, labeling
,Stigma - correct answer ✔✔A label applied to a group of people that distinguish them from
others. Label is linked to undesirable attributes (deemed by society). People with label are
sometimes discriminated against.
Types of Mental health professionals - correct answer ✔✔clinical psychologist
school psychologist
counseling psychologies
psychiatrists
psychoanalysts
social worker
mental health worker
psychopathologist
Treatment Options - correct answer ✔✔Hospitalization/inpatient care
medication,
outpatient care
day programs
group therapy
family therapy
individual therapy
Assessments:
diagnostic and psychoeduactional
History of Abnormal Psychology - correct answer ✔✔1. early demonology
2. early biological explanations
3. The dark ages
4. Development of asylums
, 5. Pinel's reforms
6. Moral treatment
7. Dorthea Dix
Hippocrates - correct answer ✔✔460-377 BC. Believed brain was the organ of consciousness
and that deviant thinking and behavior were indicators of some sort of brain pathology.
grouped mental disorders into three categories: mania, melancholia, and phrentis. Believed
mental health depended on the presence and balance of four humours.: blood, black bile,
yellow bile and phlegm.
The Dark Ages - correct answer ✔✔Time when demonology regained precedence over reason
when it came to explaining mental illness. Many "witches persecuted"
Development of Asylums - correct answer ✔✔15th and 16th centuries. Confinement of beggars
and the mentally ill. Bethlehem was an early example. Inhuman treatment prevalent.
Pinel's Reforms - correct answer ✔✔1745-1826. Removed shackles form patients in La Bicetre.
Moral Treatment - correct answer ✔✔Early 1800s. Patients had close contact with attendants.
lead lives as close to normal as possible, and takes responsibility for themselves within
constraints of disorder.
Dorothea Dix - correct answer ✔✔1802-1887. Saw plight on prisoners and patients in mental
hospitals and helped to see that 32 state hospitals were built.
Evolutio of contemporary thought - correct answer ✔✔Classical Times- Hipocrates, Galen.
Middle Ages- Vesalius, Sydenham
Early system of classification- Emil Kraeplein, Wilhelm Griesinger
