1.3 Flashcards
THE ROOTS OF
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGY
As far back as the ______
(
7
,000
years ago and maybe even as long as
50
,000 years ago), humans tried to cure
one another of various mental problems
.
Stone Age
Most ____ had medicine
men or women, known as shamans
,
who would treat the possessed by
driving out the demons with elaborate
rituals, such as exorcisms, incantations,
and prayers
.
prehistoric cultures
A prehistoric practice which involves
drilling
a small hole in
a person’s skull,
usually less than an inch in diameter
.
TREPHINATION
was thought to
be evil spirits trying to get out
.
Abnormal behavior
Abnormal behavior was thought to
be evil spirits trying to get out
.
➢ To release the spirits and demons
that possessed the afflicted person
.
➢ To heal
a brain injury
TREPHINATION
➢In 500
–300
B
.
C
.
, _____
(often called the father of medicine)
emphasized what is now known as
a
biopsychosocial approach to
understanding both physical and
psychological disorders (i
.
e
.
,
biological, psychological, and social
influences on health and illness
must be considered)
.
Hippocrates
THE BODILY
FLUIDS
(HUMUORS)
THEORY
Blood, Yellow
Bile, Black Bile, Phlegm
Humor
Sanguine, Choleric, Melancholic, Phlegmatic
Temperament
enthusiastic, active, and
social
short-tempered, fast, or
irritable
analytical, wise, and
quiet
relaxed and peaceful
Characteristics
In 427
-247
B
.C, Plato emphasized the role
of societal forces and psychological needs
in the development and alleviation of mental
disorders
.
Madness and ignorance for _____ were
diseases of the mind brought about by the
body
.
In 384
Plato
In 384
-322
B
.
C _____ emphasized the
biological determinants of mental disorders
.
Mental illness arises around the heart when
the soul, whatever its exact physical nature,
is disturbed by abnormal bodily condition
.
_____ notes that medication (pharmakeia) is used to cure the ‘deranged’
of their bizarre beliefs
Aristotle
In the late 1500s, ______ proposed
that mental and physical
illnesses were caused by
natural forces and that the
extreme manifestations of
mental disturbances such as
psychotic behavior were not
caused by witchcraft or by
satanic possession
.
St.
Vincent de Paul
The dominant approach to the treatment
of mental illness in Europe and North
America in the subsequent centuries was
anything inhumane. Those suffering from
severe mental illness were isolated in
asylums.
➢ Treatments consisted of time-honored
approaches to calming extreme behavior
such as bleeding with knives or leeches
(this was believed to reduce excitation
due to an excess of blood) or immersion
in frigid water.
ASYLUMS
During the period of the
Enlightenment, reformer
_______, the director of a major asylum in Paris in the
late 1700s, ordered that the
chains be removed from all
mental patients and that
patients be treated humanely
.
Philippe Pinel
Around the same time in England,
_____ advocated the
development of hospitals based on
modern ideas of appropriate care
and established a country retreat in
which patients lived and worked.
William Tuke
➢In the United States,
promoted the
use of moral therapy with the
mentally ill (a treatment
philosophy that encouraged
the use of compassion and
patience rather than physical
punishment or restraints)
.
Benjamin Rush
About this time, within European
medicine the specialty of
neurology was growing rapidly
➢ _________, in France, is
credited with being the primary
developer of clinical neurology. As
his fame grew, so did his
emphasis on the role of
psychological factors in hysteria.
1
Jean Martin Charcot
HISTORY OF
ASSESSMENT
IN
CLINICAL
PSYCHOLOGY
By the latter part of the 1800s, _____ studied individual differences
among people, especially differences in
motor skills and reaction times, which he
believed were related to differences in
intelligence.
Francis
Galton
________ focused
scientific attention on the connection
between reaction time and intelligence.
He is credited with coining the term
mental tests to describe the battery of
tests and tasks he developed to
evaluate people’s cognitive functioning.
James McKeen Catell
1879
, Germany
: Measurement
. ______ opens the first psychology laboratory
measuring sensory processes
.
Wilhem
Wundt
1899
, Germany
: Diagnosis
. ____________
develops the first diagnostic system
.
Emil Kraepelin
_____called the groups of symptoms
that frequently co
-occurred syndromes
Kraepelin
The presence of
a single symptom was
considered of little value in determining the
______ suffered by the
patient
.
nature of the disorder
His classification of what is now known as
_______ was one of his major
accomplishments
.
schizophrenia
BINET-SIMON SCALE
OF INTELLIGENCE
1905, France: Intelligence testing.
_______ & ________ develop a test to
assess intellectual abilities in school children.
Alfred
Binet and Theodore Simon
STANDFORD
-BINET
INTELLIGENCE TEST
➢In 1916, _______
published
a modification of this
scale for use in the United
States––the Stanford
-Binet
Intelligence Test––that was the
first widely available,
scientifically based test of
human intelligence
.
Lewis Terman
ARMY ALPHA &
ARMY BETHA
TESTS
1917, United States:
Intelligence testing.
______& _______ tests
developed to select soldiers.
Army Alpha and Army Beta
test for verbal
mental abilities
Army Alpha
test for
nonverbal mental abilities
Army Beta