OCR Psych Topic 1 Mental Health Historical Context

What does 'aetiology' mean?

• Cause or origin of an illness

• A physiological cause

• A psychological cause

• A type of mental illness

What year did the UK's first mental asylum open?

• 1367

• 1961

• 1247

• 1856

The psychogenic approach means...

• Using a psychic to uncover trauma

• attributing psychological factors as the causes of mental illness

• having abnormal levels of neurotransmitters

• undergoing psychosurgery

Which one of these is NOT one of Freud's techniques in psychoanalysis

• Free association

• dream analysis

• hypnosis

• electro convulsive therapy

Trepanning involved...

• Drilling holes into someone's skull

• Separating the frontal lobe from the rest of the brain

• treating with anti-psychotics

• using leeches

Who is generally recognised as the founder of modern psychiatry?

• Freud

• Bandura

• Rosenhan

• Kraepelin

Outline one way of defining abnormality in behaviour. (4)

Outline Rosenhan's mini-experiment (4)

What did Rosenhan mean when he wrote about the 'stickiness of labels'? (4)