Abnormal Psych Test 1

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Created Jan 30, 2011
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define abnormal psychology
 
the scientific and objective approach that describes, explains, predicts, and treats abnormal...
2
abnormal functioning/mental disorders are often characterized by? (4 d's)
 
Deviant, Distressing, Dysfunctional, Danger
3
Explain Deviant behavior
 
breaking off the morns of psychological functioning
4
What are the words used to describe bad stress?good stress?
 
distresseustress
5
describe someone who is experiencing distess
 
they have bad stress, which is often triggered by a mental illness in which the bad stress...
6
describe dysfunctional
 
the inability to deal with everyday functioning
7
list some ancient beliefs of mental illness
 
trephining, demonology, exorcism,
8
describe Greco-Roman beliefs of mental illness
 
looked for naturalistic explanations. Hippocrates began writing (father of modern medicine)...
9
middle ages response to mental illness?
 
return to supernatural explanations because it was a time of great stress; began to blame the...
10
what is mass madness?
 
a large group of people sharing the same absurd beliefs and symptoms
11
define tarantism-define lycanthropy-
 
"dance mania" people dancing like crazy for days or weeks in the street-belief that one is...
12
what is the significance of Pope Innocent VIII
 
ordered all clergymen to find and exterminate the witches in a book titled "the Witches Hammel"...
13
During the Renaissance what changes were made towards mental illness?
 
the idea of witchcraft was challenged by johaun weyer, the promotion of mental patients being...
14
Describe the Reform movement and important figures
 
-moral treatment movement in the 19th century, approach to treat people with mental illnesses...
15
Descriptive the Biological Perspective
 
people have mental illness due to chemical imbalance

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