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Flashcards by Aubrey Trammell, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Aubrey Trammell
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| Question | Answer |
| Verbal Debut examples | Abnormal and mental disorders |
| Abnormal Psychology is... | the field devoted to the scientific study of the problems we find interesting |
| 4 D's of Abnormality | Deviance Distress Dysfunction |
| Distressing... | Unpleasant & upsetting to others |
| Deviant... | Different, extreme, unusual |
| Dysfunctional | Interfering with the person's ability to conduct daily activities. Unable to operate in day to day life. |
| Danger.. | To themselves or others |
| Thomas Szasz | Believed Mental Illness was a myth. Believed it was problems of day to day life rather than a mental illness |
| What is treatment? | Systematic procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior. i.e. therapy |
| Jerone Frank believed therapy had three essential features... | 1. suffer seek relief from healer 2.trained healer is accepted by the sufferer 3. series of contacts between healer and sufferer where the healer changes the sufferers emotional, attitude and/or behavioral state. |
| Ancient operation? Explain. | Trephination-Operation where a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull. |
| Melancholia | Extreme Sadness and immobility |
| What is a Shaman? What would they do? | Shaman- Priest Shaman would perform exorcisms |
| What are Hippocrates? | Father of modern medicine |
| 4 Bodily fluids/humors believed to create "disease" (Mental Illness) | Yellow Bile Black Bile Blood Phlegm |
| Mass Madness- | Large numbers of people share the same delusion and hallucinations |
| Tarantism (Middle Ages) | Groups of people suddenly start to jump, dance and go into convulsions. |
| Asylums (16th Century) | Institutions that became popular to provide care for persons with mental disorders. Basically prisons. |
| Philippe Pinel (1745-1826) | argued patients were sick and should be treated with kindness |
| William Tuke (1732-1819) | Created a retreat for 30 mental patients to live on |
| Lobotomy | Surgical cutting of certain nerve fibers in the brain. Through the eye at the time |
| Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) | Psychoanalysis Believed in unconscious processes are the root of problems. Offered out patient treatments |
| Treatment Drugs | Psychotropic Medications Antipsychotic Drugs Antidepressants Antianxiety |
| Define (Another word for)- Deinstitution Hospitalization | Out Patient (Push Out) Inpatient (Push In) |
| Biological Model | Physical Process as Key to Human Behavior |
| Psychodynamic Model | looks at the unconscious internal process |
| Cognitive Model | focuses on the thinking and underlies behavior |
| Humanistic-Existential Model | Looks to social and cultural forces as the keys to human function |
| Sociocultural Model | Social and cultural forces as keys to human functioning |
| Family Social Perspective | Focuses on individuals family and social interactions, and the multicultural perspective |
| Fear is... | adaptive. |
| ID (Freud) | Denote instinctual needs, drives, and impulses. Pleasure Principle. |
| Ego (Freud) | Reality Principle: Knowledge acquired through experiences. |
| Super Ego (Freud) | Grows from Ego Morality Principle- Sense of right and wrong. |
| Self Theory | Emphasizes the role of self - our unified personality |
| 3 phenomena's | resistance transference dreams |
| catharisis | reliving of past repressed feelings in order to settle internal conflicts and overcoming problems |
| Behavior Model | Focuses on behavior Focuses on treatments on principles of learning |
| Classical Conditioning | Temporal Association 2 events that repeatedly occur close together in time before fused in a person's mind. |
| Operant Conditioning | Reward - Consequence system |
| Model Process- | Learning in which acquiring a skill from observation and imitation of others |
| Clinical Tests | Device for gathering information about a few aspects of a person's psychological functioning |
| Projective Tests | Require clients to interpret vague stimuli such as inkblots, etc. |
| Psychophysiological test & example | measures physical responses as possible indicators of psychological problems i.e. polygraph |
| DSM-5 | Clinicians determine if the patient has one of hundreds of psychological disorders i.e. anxiety, depression |
| Empirically Supported Treatment | Therapy that has received clear research support for a particular disorder and has corresponding treatment guidelines . AKA Evidence based treatment. |
| Psychopharmacologist | Psychiatrist who primarily prescribes medications |
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