PSY 220 Final Exam Guide 2024.

PSY 220 Final Exam Guide 2024. Monasteries often served as sanctuaries, refuges, and places of treatment for the mentally ill. T or F? - ANSWER True Which event in human history (around 200 - 475 A.D.) was most responsible for religion's return to prominence for treating illness and mental illness? - ANSWER The Plagues The early Greek physician, Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) believed that supernatural spirits were the chief cause of human disease. T or F? - ANSWER False In humorism, which of the following four humors was believed to be the cause of depression? - ANSWER Black Bile The earliest beliefs about difficulties and "deviant" behavior is that they were due to: - ANSWER possession by evil spirits and demons ("demonology") The word asylum refers to a place of refuge that provides protection, shelter, and security. T or F? - ANSWER True Which best describes the principal function of the human mind? - ANSWER "Do not get eaten machine" (survival) The creation of the psychiatric categories of Melancholy, Mania and Epilepsy was largely attributed to: - ANSWER Hippocrates Trephining is: - ANSWER both (a) and (b) are correct (a) a primitive medical treatment (b) a hole cut from the skull allowing evil spirits a route to escape. One of the earliest public asylums and the one most typical of the overall character of these institutions was St. Mary's of Bethlehem. T or F? - ANSWER True In 1772, Phillipe Pinel, the French physician: - ANSWER humanized an asylum in Paris by removing the chains from patients and provided adequate food and clothing. Applied Behavior Analysis is essentially a re-naming of Behavior Modification. T or F? - ANSWER True Fechner's important insight of October 22, 1850 was that - ANSWER the relationship of the psychological and physical worlds could be measured