What is abnormal psychology?
Abnormal psychology is the field
devoted to the study disordered
behavior.
What is a clinical scientist?
A clinical scientist is psychologist
responsible for gathering data
about abnormal behavior.
What is a clinical practitioner?
A clinical practitioner is an applied
psychologist who uses collected
data to help the disordered.
What are the four "D's" of
abnormality?
The four "D's" are the four most
common indicators of abnormal
behavior, deviance, distress,
dysfunction, and danger.
What is deviant behavior?
Deviant behavior is any behavior
that violates a social or cultural
norm.
What is a norm?
A norm is an implicit of explicit rule
for appropriate behavior which is
established by the group.
What is culture?
Culture includes the history,
traditions, rules, values,
institutions, habits, skills,
technologies and language of a
group.
What is distress?
Distress is the feeling of trauma or
anxiety that is associated with the
abnormal behavior.
What is dysfunction?
Dysfunction is the interruption of
daily activities that is associated
with abnormal behavior.
What is danger?
Danger is the pattern of behavior
that is marked by carelessness,
poor judgment, or hostility which
can jeopardize one's well being.
Who is Thomas Szasz?
Thomas Szasz is a psychologist who
suggests that mental illness is a
myth?
What is eccentricity?
Eccentricities are behaviors which
a society judges to be odd but
continues to tolerate.
What is treatment?
Treatment is a set of procedures
designed to help control of change
abnormal behavior.
What is therapy?
Therapy is treatment, including
systematic processes for helping a
person overcome psychological
difficulties.
What is a patient?
The term patient is used by a
clinician who believes that abnormal
behaviors are caused by illnesses.
What is a client?
The term client is used by a
Clinician who believes that abnormal
behavior is the result of
maladaptive thinking.
What is schizophrenia?
Schizophrenia is a group of
biological disorders where a person
loses their sense of reality.
What is trephination?
Trephination is the act of cutting
into a person's skull with a
primitive instrument.
What is exorcism?
Exorcism is a rite or ceremony
designed to drive an evil spirit from
a person's body?
What is a shaman?
A shaman is a person who has the
responsibility of driving an evil
spirit from a person or
environment.
What is melancholia?
Melancholia is the condition marked
by unshakable sadness.
What is mania?
Mania is the condition marked by a
state of euphoria and frenzied
activity.
What is dementia?
Dementia is a state of general
cognitive and intellectual decline
What is hysteria?
Hysteria is the state of physical
ailment with no apparent physical
cause.
What is a delusion?
A delusion is a belief that blatantly
has no basis in reality.
What is a hallucination?
A hallucination is a condition where
a person experiences things that
have no basis in reality.
What are humors?
During the Middle Ages, the
humors where considered to be
four liquids that existed in the
body.
What were the four humors?
The four humors were yellow bile,
black bile, phlegm, and blood.
What is mass madness?
Mass madness is where a large
number of people apparently share
the same delusions and
hallucinations.
What was tarantism?
Tarantism was a form of mania
where large groups of people would
suddenly start dancing around and
have convulsions.
What was lycanthropy?
Lycanthropy was an early disorder
where people though that they
were possessed by wolves or other
animals.
What was an asylum?
An asylum was an institution where
people with metal illnesses were
sent to be treated.
Who was Philippe Pinel?
Philippe Pinel was a nineteenth
century mental health reformer.
What was moral treatment?
Moral treatment refers to the
humane and ethical methods of
treatment which were espoused by
Philippe Pinel and other reformers.
Who was Dorethea Dix?
Dorethea Dix was a Boston school
teacher who campaigned for
improved treatment of patients in
mental hospitals in the nineteenth
century.
What is the somatogenic
perspective?
The somatogenic perspective is the
idea that psychological pathology is
a product of physical
What is the psychogenic
perspective?
The psychogenic perspective is the
idea that pathological behavior is
the product of psychological
functioning.
What is private psychotherapy?
Private psychotherapy is the
arrangement where a person
directly pays a psychologists for
therapy services.
What is a psychiatrist?
A psychiatrist is a medical doctor
who is trained in the chemical
structures and balances in the
brain.
What is a clinical psychologist?
A clinical psychologist is a doctor
of psychology who practices clinical
treatment.
What is hypnotism?
Hypnotism is the inducing of a
trance like state in which a person
becomes suggestible.
Who was Fredrick Anton Mesmer?
Fredrick Anton Mesmer was a
controversial figure who used a
very unorthodox treatment method
to treat patients.
What is psychoanalysis?
Psychoanalysis was established by
Sigmund Freud and suggests that
abnormality is psychogenic and
influenced by subconscious and
dynamic factors in the mind.
Who was Sigmund Freud?
Sigmund Freud was the founder of
psychoanalysis and the
psychodynamic perspective.
What is outpatient therapy?
Outpatient therapy is the
psychoanalytic treatment system
where a patient meets with the
therapist for a short time and then
goes home.
What are psychotropic
medications?
Psychotropic medications tend to
alleviate symptoms of abnormality
by affecting chemistry in the brain.
What is deinstitutionalization?
Deinstitutionalization is the
movement of releasing many
individuals from public mental
health hospitals due to the relief
they receive from drug therapies.
What is the community mental
health approach?
Community mental health focuses
more on prevention and wellness
than private treatment.
Who was Hippocrates?
Hippocrates is often called the
father of modern medicine and was
an early proponent of discovering
physical causes of mental
disorders.
What was phrenology?
Phrenology, established by Franz
Joseph Gall, was the pseudo science
that suggested bumps on the skull
were related to specific
psychological characteristics.