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What is one of the earliest writing's on abnormal behavior?
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Reginald Scot's 'Discoverie of Witchcraft' attempted to debunk witchcraft in 1584
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What might one treatment for the mentally disturbed have been in the Golden Age of Greece?
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The disturbed would sleep in temples in the hopes that their dream would reveal the nature of the illness and it's subsequent cure.
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Hippocrates believed that hysteria was caused by a wandering _ _ _ _ _ _
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Uterus.
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One of the most influential Greek physicians praticing in Rome during the 2nd century AD was _ _ _ _ _
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Galen.
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Who is credicted with coining the term "lunatic?"
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Paracelsus, a Swiss physician.
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Who wrote 'Discoverie of Witchcraft', a text that refuted the existence of witches in 1584?
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Reginald Scot
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At the beginning of the Renaissance, this priest declared, "Mental disease is no different to bodily disease..."
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St. Vincent De Paul
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San Hipolito, first asylum established in the Americas was in _________ in 1566.
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Mexico.
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Who was the first reformer of asylums during the Enlightenment?
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Phillippe Pinel.
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The first mental hospital in what would become the United States was constructed in Williamsburg, Virginia in what year?
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1771.
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This woman carried on a forty-year campaign for the better treatment of the mentally ill and is credited with establishing 32 "humane" mental hospitals.
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Dorothea Dix
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What was the earliest effective treatment of syphilis?
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Infecting the patient with malaria so the subsequent high fever kills the syphilitic bacteria, then treat the malaria.
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Sigmund Freud was a this kind of physician.
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Neurologist.
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Those who believed that hysteria was caused by the power of suggestion and was related to the phenomenon of hypnosis belonged to the _ _ _ _ _ school.
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Nancy
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This leading neurologist of This late 1800's believed that hysteria was due to degenerative changes in the brain.
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Jean Charcot
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The emotional release experienced by Freud and Breur's patients after emotional sessions was termed _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Catharsis.
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Freud was introduced to the American scientists and public by giving lectures at Clark University in what year?
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1909.
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What is Jerome Wakefield's definition of what constitutes a mental disorder?
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A mental disorder/condition that:
a) causes significant distress/disability b) is not merely an expectable response to a particular event and c) is not a manifestation of a mental dysfunction. |
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What are the most recent diagnostic systems?
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ICD-9
DSM IV and DSM IV-R |
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Which psychological perspective rose up to challenge psychoanalysis in the first half of the 20th century?
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Behaviorism.
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John B. Watson argued that the focus of psychology ought to be _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Behavior.
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According to the text, what descriptions are often included in the judgement of abnormality?
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-Deviant
-Different -Disordered -Bizarre |
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What perecentage of adults suffer from at least one mental disorder during any six-motn period of time?
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19%
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The first of the DSMs was published in what year?
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1952.
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What are the problems in citing "Battered Spouse Syndrome" as a defense in a murder case?
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-Only a small percentage of battered spouses retaliate.
-There's no way to determine who which percentage murders and which doesn't. -There are more legally acceptable self defense claims than Battered Spouse Syndrome. |
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The prevalence of schizophrenia is about __% world-wide.
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1%
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The peak age of onset of schizophrenia is in what age group?
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Mid-teens to mid-twenties.
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What can be said of the relationship between gender and schizophrenia?
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Occurence is approximately equal across the sexes, although there is frequently a milder course in women as well as a a generally later onset of about six years.
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Schizophrenia with the predominant symptoms being withdrawal, decreased motivation, and catatonic stupor would be a _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ schizophrenia.
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Catatonic.
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"Cognitive slippage" and "derailment" are terms sometimes used to describe what characteristic of some schizophrenics?
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Disorganized speech, "word salad", formal thought disorder.
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"James" has schizophrenia. He suddenly finds his mind has gone blank. If he had a delusional explaination for the event, it would most likely be of what type?
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Thought withdrawal.
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"Jerry" has schizophrenia. If he believes that ideas are being placed into his mind by space aliens, what sort of delusion might he have?
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Thought insertion.
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What is the most common form of hallucination in schizophrenia?
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Auditory hallucinations.
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A disturbance in motor behavior is the chief and defining characteristic in what type of schizophrenia?
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Catatonic schizophrenia.
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What type of schizophrenia do we find a person who meets the basic schizophrenia criteria but does not fit into any other defined subtype?
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Delusional schizophrenia.
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Paranoid schizophrenia is characterized by what defining characteristic?
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Delusions of persecution and/or megalomania.
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"Sam" sees a car with Florida license plates and believes it was put there deliberately to tell him to go to Florida. What sort of delusion does he have?
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Delusion of reference.
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A patient says "In a fish shell, one has meaninglessness to impart, only above which one can reach the plane." What should you suspect?
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Disorganized speech/word salad/formal thought disorder/cognitive slippage.
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What are some -negative- symptoms of schizophrenia?
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-affective flattening
-alogia -avolition/apathy -anhedonia/asociality -attentional impairment |
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Which type of schizophrenia has the worst prognosis?
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Disorganized schizophrenia
aka Hebephrenia |
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Schizophrenia has been recognized since what year?
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1857
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Paranoid schizophrenia occurs more often in _ _ _
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Men.
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"Original" causes (like genes) are known as what?
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Genetic variables.
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Thorazine is a member of what family?
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Phenothiazine family.
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What are some premorbid factors for schizophrenia?
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-Schizophrenic relative
-Biologically older father -History of prenatal disruption. -Slowed reaction time -Low birth weight/low IQ -Early role as family scapegoat -Inconsistent/extreme parenting -Peer rejection -Inability to form stable relationships |
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This term denotes a loss of contact with reality.
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Psychosis.
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"Joe" believes that the actress Angelina Jolie is in love with him, though the two have never met. Joe might be suffering what kind of delusion?
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Erotomanic delusion.
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"Bill" believes he is Jesus Christ. Upon review, you find no abnormalities unless you happened upon that topic. Assuming he isn't Jesus, you might suspect he suffers from what?
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Grandoise delusion.
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What are some positive prognostic signs in schizphrenia?
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-History of stable sexual-social relationships.
-Negative symptoms are absent. -Family history of affective (over schizophrenic)disorder. -Abrupt onset, clear causes. -Later onset than childhood. -Higher socioeconominc status -Adequate premorbid school/work adjustment. -Short hospital stay. -No history of E.C.T. -Stimulation-receptive -Lower levels of expressed emotion upon hospital release. |
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What are some premorbid factors ins chizophrenia
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-Schizophrenic relative.
-History of prenatal disruption -Slowed perceptual reaction time -Developmental/CNS dysfunction, rapid recovery of ANS, decresed temporal lobe size, enlarged lateral cerebral ventricles. -Low birth weight/low IQ -Early role as family scapegoat -Inconsistent and extreme parenting. -Peer rejection Early behavioral problems. -Inability to form stable relationships. |