Terminology
What Greek words does psychology come from?
"psyche" (spirit, soul) and "logia" (study, research)
The first time the word was used in English was in 1654, in “New Method of Physik,” a science book.
Name 2 Diagnoses that were considered to be demonic possession or related to sin. They may or may not have been treated by an exorcist or the church.
Schizophrenia, Epilepsy, Hallucinations
What famous artists depicted their mental health suffering in their art?
Name 2.
Edvard Munch, Van Gogh, Caravaggio, Beethoven, Charles Dickens, Silvia Plath, Virginia Woolf, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allen Poe, Ernest Hemingway, ***
What era did the word "psychology" first emerge?
A. Industrial Era
B. Renaissance Era
C. World War I Era
B. The Renaissance Era.
In the 17th century, the French philosopher Rene Descartes introduced the idea of dualism, which asserted that the mind and body were two entities that interact to form the human experience. Nature vs. Nurture is based on this early philosophical tradition.
The father of Cognitive Therapy (which was developed in PA) is ...
Dr. Aaron T. Beck.
Which hormone is known to reduce stress and promote feelings of bonding?
Oxytocin.
It was first discovered in 1906 by Sir Henry Hallett.
Oxytocin was the first polypeptide hormone to be sequenced or synthesized. Du Vigneaud was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1955 for his work.
What diagnosis was said to have come from a 'crisis of meaning' according to William James?
Depression
Name the study (recently turned into a documentary on Netflix) by professor Philip Zimbardo in 1971.
The Standford Prison Study/Experiment.
It was to replicate the experience of inmates and guards in a two-week simulation. Volunteers (who were paid) were randomly selected to be either an inmate or guards and told to act accordingly. Over five days, the guards were said to have become “increasingly brutal” before the experiment was canceled on the sixth. The experiment and its conclusions were never able to be reproduced. This has since been deemed an unethical study.
In the mid 20th century, Victor Frankl (doctor and holocaust-survivor) became the founder of what type of psychotherapy?
Existentialism.
His “logotherapy,” developed after being ejected from the psychoanalytic school developed by Alfred Adler, was further refined at Theresienstadt and Auschwitz concentration camps, where he saw the rest of his family murdered. Frankl believed that happiness was derived from having meaning in your life and that once you found a meaning to pursue, life became easier. This appealed greatly to a 1960s youth feeling “directionless,” and his book, “Man’s Search for Meaning” was a best-seller.
When was 'Friends Asylum' established by the Philadelphia Quakers?
PS. this is now UHS Friends Hospital
1814
This was the first institution specially built to implement the full program of moral treatment. The Friends Asylum remained unique in that it was run by a lay staff rather than by medical men and women.
What school of psychological thought is discussed in this quote?
The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.
— Carl Rogers
Humanistic psychology. Started developing the first 1/2 of the 20th century.
When did the APA remove homosexuality from the DSM?
(plus or minus 5 years)
1973
In 1957, psychologist Evelyn Hooker (1907–1996) published the paper “The Adjustment of the Male Overt Homosexual,” reporting on her research that showed no significant differences in psychological adjustment between homosexual and heterosexual men. Her research helped to de-pathologize homosexuality and contributed to the decision by the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in 1973 (Garnets & Kimmel, 2003).
What movie/show depicts Nurse Ratched and the systemic problems within mental health institutions?
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Ratched (Neflix 2020)
When was the first psychology laboratory established in the US?
(plus or minus 10 years)
William James established a lab in Harvard University in 1875.
Wundt established his in 1879.
Hall established his in 1883.
What local college town was a sundown town through the 1960s due to a law prohibiting 'negros' from spending the night in the down? (In Lancaster County)
Elizabethtown.
E-town college did not admit their first African American student until the late 1960s due to this ordinance.
Right after WWII E-town College had barracks housing but black students had to live at the end of the barracks because it was across the city line due to the ordinance being in place.
What often causes is chronic traumatic encephalopathy?
Repeated blows to the head.
One famous person said to have been diagnosed with this in WWI was Ernest Heminway. More recently this has been associated with sports like wrestling and football.
What is 'Dementia Praecox' also know as? Hint: Jack Kerouac was diagnosed with this in 1943 in a military hospital.
Schizophrenia
Jack Kerouac started hearing voices at around age 6.
What shows/movies have depicted "Mad King George"?
Name 2.
The Madness of King George (1994)
Bridgerton (Netflix 2020)
Queen Charlotte (Netflix 2023)
George III: The Genius of the Mad King (2017)
Hamilton (Disney 2020)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Which US President anonymously published a poem 'Suicide's Soliloquy' in the Sangamo Journal in 1838?
It included the lines: ‘This heart I’ll rush a dagger through/Though I in hell should rue it!’
Which National Organization of Psychology held its first meeting in Dec. 1892 at the University of Pennsylvania?
the APA (American Psychological Association)
APA was founded in July 1892 by a small group of men interested in what they called “the new psychology.” The group elected 31 individuals, including themselves, to membership, with G. Stanley Hall (1844-1924) as its first president.
What was the first psychological school of thought? Developed in the 1870s.
Structuralism.
Edward B. Titchener took Wundt’s studies to produce a formal school of thought sometimes known as “structuralism.” With the goal being to quantify thoughts the same way we can objectively measure compounds or movement, Titchener believed all thoughts and feelings contained four distinct properties: intensity, quality, duration, and extent.
The census IN WHAT YEAR recorded data about mental health in the following 7 categories as well as frequency.
(1) mania, (2) melancholia (3) Monomania (4) paresis (5) dementia (6) Dipsomania (7) epilepsy
(Plus or minus 20 years)
1880 Census
Name the movie.
Released in 2018, David Tennant stars as Scottish Dr. RD Laing (psychiatrist) in the 1960s biopic. Dr. Laing earned his fame for his radical, empathetic treatment of mental illness. Quotably stating insanity is "a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world". Other actors in the film include: Elisabeth Moss, Gabriel Byrne, & Michael Gambon.
Mad to be Normal
Dr. Lang was known for recommending LSD to his adult patients and also fought personal demons of alcoholism and depression.
What is the earliest mention of psychology/mental conditions?
(Plus or Minus 100 years)
The Ebers Papyrus, a medical textbook from 1500 BC Egypt, contained a chapter called “The Book of Hearts,” which describes several mental conditions, including the description of a patient whose “mind is dark (melancholic?), and he tastes his heart.”
Name the movie by M. N. Shamalan filmed and set in Philadelphia about an individual with multiple personality disorder.
SPLIT