PSY 333 Exam 1 Study Guide: Abnormal Psychology Foundations Review
abnormal behavior general criteria - ✔✔statistical infrequency, deviance (cultural
inappropriateness), dysfunction (maladaptive), distress (subjective), dangerousness
acronym for abnormal behavior general criteria - ✔✔SDDDD
What are the main historical models for the causes and treatment of psychological disorders? -
✔✔supernatural, biological, psychological
Pasteur's germ theory - ✔✔microorganisms could invade body and lead to physical problems
original purpose of asylums - ✔✔keep people away from society
Philippe Pinel and Jean-Baptiste Pussin - ✔✔treated asylum patients humanely, unchained,
encouraged social interaction, small staff to patient ratio, symptoms improved, only moral
therapy for wealthy
Mental Hygiene Movement - ✔✔Dorothea Dix, moral therapy for all
What 4 themes led to contemporary perspectives of abnormal psychology? - ✔✔biological
discoveries, development of classification system, experimental psychology research,
emergence of psychological causation viewpoint
Emil Kraepelin - ✔✔outlined causes, course, and outcomes of various syndromes
What are the major hypothesized causes of psychological illness according to biological
perspective? - ✔✔genetic vulnerabilities, chemical imbalances (neurotransmitter/ hormonal
abnormalities), structural (brain disfunction)
, Behavioral genetics - ✔✔the study of the degree to which genes and environment influence
behavior
heritability - ✔✔extent to which the variability in a particular disorder can be accounted for by
genetic factors
HPA axis - ✔✔hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal
Norepinephrine - ✔✔Attention, alertness, mood, associated with fight or flight
Serotonin - ✔✔mood disorders, information processes
Dopamine - ✔✔schizophrenia, 2 pathways: motor (movement), pleasure centers (reward)
GABA - ✔✔anxiety, overstimulation, solely inhibitory (always decreases chances that next
neuron will fire)
Hypothalamus controls - ✔✔nervous system and hormonal response to fight or flight
NT release - ✔✔Neuron- receives enough stimulation to reach threshold it will fire (known as
action potential), action potential goes down axon, end of axon electrical change gets to
terminal button releases neurotransmitter that goes into synapse and gets into receptors on
postsynaptic neuron (can lead to increase or decrease of chance next neuron fires)
how a NT is destroyed - ✔✔reuptake or enzyme breakdown
abnormal behavior general criteria - ✔✔statistical infrequency, deviance (cultural
inappropriateness), dysfunction (maladaptive), distress (subjective), dangerousness
acronym for abnormal behavior general criteria - ✔✔SDDDD
What are the main historical models for the causes and treatment of psychological disorders? -
✔✔supernatural, biological, psychological
Pasteur's germ theory - ✔✔microorganisms could invade body and lead to physical problems
original purpose of asylums - ✔✔keep people away from society
Philippe Pinel and Jean-Baptiste Pussin - ✔✔treated asylum patients humanely, unchained,
encouraged social interaction, small staff to patient ratio, symptoms improved, only moral
therapy for wealthy
Mental Hygiene Movement - ✔✔Dorothea Dix, moral therapy for all
What 4 themes led to contemporary perspectives of abnormal psychology? - ✔✔biological
discoveries, development of classification system, experimental psychology research,
emergence of psychological causation viewpoint
Emil Kraepelin - ✔✔outlined causes, course, and outcomes of various syndromes
What are the major hypothesized causes of psychological illness according to biological
perspective? - ✔✔genetic vulnerabilities, chemical imbalances (neurotransmitter/ hormonal
abnormalities), structural (brain disfunction)
, Behavioral genetics - ✔✔the study of the degree to which genes and environment influence
behavior
heritability - ✔✔extent to which the variability in a particular disorder can be accounted for by
genetic factors
HPA axis - ✔✔hypothalamus, pituitary, adrenal
Norepinephrine - ✔✔Attention, alertness, mood, associated with fight or flight
Serotonin - ✔✔mood disorders, information processes
Dopamine - ✔✔schizophrenia, 2 pathways: motor (movement), pleasure centers (reward)
GABA - ✔✔anxiety, overstimulation, solely inhibitory (always decreases chances that next
neuron will fire)
Hypothalamus controls - ✔✔nervous system and hormonal response to fight or flight
NT release - ✔✔Neuron- receives enough stimulation to reach threshold it will fire (known as
action potential), action potential goes down axon, end of axon electrical change gets to
terminal button releases neurotransmitter that goes into synapse and gets into receptors on
postsynaptic neuron (can lead to increase or decrease of chance next neuron fires)
how a NT is destroyed - ✔✔reuptake or enzyme breakdown
