PSYC3102 questions with appropriate
answers
Abnormal Psychology - answersStudy of behaviour with the objectives of
1. describing
2. explaining
3. predicting
4. controlling behaviours that considered strange and unusual
Relativists - answerssymptoms and causes of a disorder vary across culutres
Absolutists - answersdisorder is caused by the same biological factors in all cultures
Abnormality definition - answers1.no clear-cut definitions
Abnormal behaviour - answersdeviant, dangerous or dysfunctional
Abnormal behaviour consequences - answersdistress or dysfunction for individual or
others
Elements of Abnormality - answers-personal suffering
-maladaptiveness
-irrationality and incomprehensibility
-unpredictability and loss of control
-level of emotional distress
-interference in daily functioning
-vividness and unconventionality (deviations from the normal (Developmetal, societal
and culturals)
-observer discomfort
-violation of moral and ideal standards
Defining Abnoraml behaviour - answersDSM-5
Diagnostic and statistical manuel for mental disorders
DSM-5 - answerssymptoms and the scientific basis for the disorder
-presentation
-aetiology
-developmental stage
-functional impairment
Clinical presentation - answerssymtoms clustered together
,etiology - answerscause of the disorder
developmental stage - answersdoes disorder look different between children and adults
functional impairment - answersimmediate and long term consequences
Mental disorders - answers-present distress
-disability (impairment)
-risk of suffering death/pain/loss of freedom/disability
Thomas Szasz- Clinical labelling misue - answersmental illness=problems in living
Mental Health Professionals - answers1. Psychiatrists
2. clincial psychologist
3. psychoanalyst
4. psychotherapist
5. counselling psychologist
Epidemiology - answersthe study of the frequency and distribution of disorders within a
population
incidence - answersnumber of new cases of a diorder taht appear in a population within
a pseicfic time period
prevalence - answerstotal number of active cases in a given population during specific
period of time
life-time prevalence - answersproportion of people in a given population affected by the
disorder at some point during their lives e.g. depression 17%
comorbidity - answersthe presence of more than one condition at a time
Australians/qld that suffer mental disorders in their lifetime - answers1/4
How many qlders suffer mental disorders that significantly interfere with their daily lives
- answers1/2 million
How many australians attempt suicide everyday? - answers100
How many australians committed suicide in 2010? - answers2, 361
77% men
35.44 years highest suicide rates
highest to lowest lifetime prevalence - answersmajor depression, alcohol abuse, drug
abuse, post traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, bipolar mood isorder, ocd,
schizophrenia, bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa
,How did the ancient world explain mental disorders? (Exl greece) - answerssupernatural
explanations
Hippocrates (5th BC, greece) 3 categories of mental disorders? - answers1. Mania
2. Melancholia
3. Phrenitis or brain-fever
Hipporcrates explanation of mental disorder? - answersnatural causes: an imbalance in
the four essential fluids
1. blood
2. phlegm
3. yellow
4. black bile
(couldn't find evidence after the romance empire fell in 1st century)
Middle age explanation of mental disorder? - answersreligion domination- supernatural
view
Supernatural view of mental disorders - answersabnormal behaviour were works of the
devil/witchcraft (exorcisms)
-persecution as witches
Renaissance delt with mental disorders how? - answershumane treatment of mentally ill
Pacacelsus - answersstarts and planents affected the brain
Weyer - answers1st physician to treat mental illness
Asylums - answersmid 16h c
e.g London's bethlehem hospital
Treatment
-confinement (shackles/chains/isolation)
-torturous practices
(ice baths, spin chairs, retricted diets)
-medical treatments
(bloodletting, purgatives)
Moral treatment - answers19th century
-american/french revolutions->individual rights
-humantarian
-care of people
Philippe Pinel's reforms - answersreforms in the care of people with mental disorders
Pinel's Classification System (late 19th c) - answers-melancholia
, -mania
-mania with delirium
-dementia
-idiotism
Kraepelin and the German Classifiers (1920s) - answers1. dementia praecox
2. manic depressive psychosis
Dementia praecox - answersbleuler subsequently renamed it schizophrenia
what did syphilis cause? - answersa search for biological causes
Who identified hysterical disorders? - answersFranz Mesmer
How were Franz Mesmer hysterical disorders treated? - answersHypnosis
Freud and Jean Martin Charcot - answers
Joseph Breuer: catharsis - answers
Freud- Free assocation - answers
Frued and Breurer's study in hysteria (1895) (a psychoanalytic revolution) - answers1.
psychological factors affect behaviour
2. talking treatment more effective than harsh physical and moral treatments
3. behaviour influenced by thoughts, impulses and wishes (unaware of)
4. non-psychotic disorders are worthy of treatment
Biopsychosocial Framework (Adolf Meyer 1866-1950) - answers-Biological factors
(biology/disease processes/genes)
-Psychological factors (thoughts/feelings/perceptions)
-social factors (relationships/support)
-Environmental factors (characteristics of seetings)
Problems with single models for explaining abnormal behaviour - answers1. individuals
are all unique, hard to explain the presence of the behaviour
2. many different factors contribute to the illness as a whole (systemic approach)
Diathesis-stress model - answersexamines biological, psychological, social, and cultural
factors related to abnormal behaviour
Advances in Treatment - answers1. Psychoanalytic technique
2. Psychological theories (behavioural/humanistic)
3. new psychotropic drugs
4. deinstitutionalisation
5. out-patient psychiatric clinics
answers
Abnormal Psychology - answersStudy of behaviour with the objectives of
1. describing
2. explaining
3. predicting
4. controlling behaviours that considered strange and unusual
Relativists - answerssymptoms and causes of a disorder vary across culutres
Absolutists - answersdisorder is caused by the same biological factors in all cultures
Abnormality definition - answers1.no clear-cut definitions
Abnormal behaviour - answersdeviant, dangerous or dysfunctional
Abnormal behaviour consequences - answersdistress or dysfunction for individual or
others
Elements of Abnormality - answers-personal suffering
-maladaptiveness
-irrationality and incomprehensibility
-unpredictability and loss of control
-level of emotional distress
-interference in daily functioning
-vividness and unconventionality (deviations from the normal (Developmetal, societal
and culturals)
-observer discomfort
-violation of moral and ideal standards
Defining Abnoraml behaviour - answersDSM-5
Diagnostic and statistical manuel for mental disorders
DSM-5 - answerssymptoms and the scientific basis for the disorder
-presentation
-aetiology
-developmental stage
-functional impairment
Clinical presentation - answerssymtoms clustered together
,etiology - answerscause of the disorder
developmental stage - answersdoes disorder look different between children and adults
functional impairment - answersimmediate and long term consequences
Mental disorders - answers-present distress
-disability (impairment)
-risk of suffering death/pain/loss of freedom/disability
Thomas Szasz- Clinical labelling misue - answersmental illness=problems in living
Mental Health Professionals - answers1. Psychiatrists
2. clincial psychologist
3. psychoanalyst
4. psychotherapist
5. counselling psychologist
Epidemiology - answersthe study of the frequency and distribution of disorders within a
population
incidence - answersnumber of new cases of a diorder taht appear in a population within
a pseicfic time period
prevalence - answerstotal number of active cases in a given population during specific
period of time
life-time prevalence - answersproportion of people in a given population affected by the
disorder at some point during their lives e.g. depression 17%
comorbidity - answersthe presence of more than one condition at a time
Australians/qld that suffer mental disorders in their lifetime - answers1/4
How many qlders suffer mental disorders that significantly interfere with their daily lives
- answers1/2 million
How many australians attempt suicide everyday? - answers100
How many australians committed suicide in 2010? - answers2, 361
77% men
35.44 years highest suicide rates
highest to lowest lifetime prevalence - answersmajor depression, alcohol abuse, drug
abuse, post traumatic stress disorder, panic disorder, bipolar mood isorder, ocd,
schizophrenia, bulimia nervosa, anorexia nervosa
,How did the ancient world explain mental disorders? (Exl greece) - answerssupernatural
explanations
Hippocrates (5th BC, greece) 3 categories of mental disorders? - answers1. Mania
2. Melancholia
3. Phrenitis or brain-fever
Hipporcrates explanation of mental disorder? - answersnatural causes: an imbalance in
the four essential fluids
1. blood
2. phlegm
3. yellow
4. black bile
(couldn't find evidence after the romance empire fell in 1st century)
Middle age explanation of mental disorder? - answersreligion domination- supernatural
view
Supernatural view of mental disorders - answersabnormal behaviour were works of the
devil/witchcraft (exorcisms)
-persecution as witches
Renaissance delt with mental disorders how? - answershumane treatment of mentally ill
Pacacelsus - answersstarts and planents affected the brain
Weyer - answers1st physician to treat mental illness
Asylums - answersmid 16h c
e.g London's bethlehem hospital
Treatment
-confinement (shackles/chains/isolation)
-torturous practices
(ice baths, spin chairs, retricted diets)
-medical treatments
(bloodletting, purgatives)
Moral treatment - answers19th century
-american/french revolutions->individual rights
-humantarian
-care of people
Philippe Pinel's reforms - answersreforms in the care of people with mental disorders
Pinel's Classification System (late 19th c) - answers-melancholia
, -mania
-mania with delirium
-dementia
-idiotism
Kraepelin and the German Classifiers (1920s) - answers1. dementia praecox
2. manic depressive psychosis
Dementia praecox - answersbleuler subsequently renamed it schizophrenia
what did syphilis cause? - answersa search for biological causes
Who identified hysterical disorders? - answersFranz Mesmer
How were Franz Mesmer hysterical disorders treated? - answersHypnosis
Freud and Jean Martin Charcot - answers
Joseph Breuer: catharsis - answers
Freud- Free assocation - answers
Frued and Breurer's study in hysteria (1895) (a psychoanalytic revolution) - answers1.
psychological factors affect behaviour
2. talking treatment more effective than harsh physical and moral treatments
3. behaviour influenced by thoughts, impulses and wishes (unaware of)
4. non-psychotic disorders are worthy of treatment
Biopsychosocial Framework (Adolf Meyer 1866-1950) - answers-Biological factors
(biology/disease processes/genes)
-Psychological factors (thoughts/feelings/perceptions)
-social factors (relationships/support)
-Environmental factors (characteristics of seetings)
Problems with single models for explaining abnormal behaviour - answers1. individuals
are all unique, hard to explain the presence of the behaviour
2. many different factors contribute to the illness as a whole (systemic approach)
Diathesis-stress model - answersexamines biological, psychological, social, and cultural
factors related to abnormal behaviour
Advances in Treatment - answers1. Psychoanalytic technique
2. Psychological theories (behavioural/humanistic)
3. new psychotropic drugs
4. deinstitutionalisation
5. out-patient psychiatric clinics
