Abnormal Psychology

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Psychology Flashcards on Abnormal Psychology, created by Aubrey Trammell on 03/10/2021.
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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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