Applied Flashcards
History of mental health-BC
Egyptian medical records show understanding of depression.
Mental illness seen as evil spirits within.
Treatments: trephination, temple attendance, religious healing, exorcism and starvation.
Hippocrates, 4 bodily humorous, blood yellow bile black bike and phlegm
History of MH - 1300-1400
Witchcraft demonic possession
Witches would be burned
History of MH-1800
Mental asylums chained to walls
Treated like physical illnesses
Purges bleeding emetics gyrating chair and ice/boiling baths
history of MH -1900
Freud, unconscious conflicts
Drugs invented
Statistical infrequently
Any behaviour that is shown less often than average is abnormal
Maladaptiveness
Failure to function adequately
Deviance from social norms
Social norms maintained through laws guidelines or social pressure, behaviour is abnormal if it goes against those
Child psychology intelligence
Broca, head size, haier, males more grey matter,
Van leeuwen, twin family study Netherlands, ravens standard/advanced progressive matrices, no difference m/f. Variance in siblings larger than in twins.
Intelligence is largely due to genetic difference.
Child- brain development
Huttenlocher, prefrontal cortex develops into early 20s
Barkley and Levenson, brain development risk taking behaviour, quasi lab IM, fMRI gambling tasks, with no risk no difference, the higher the eV the more likely the adolescent accepts more activity in vs in adolescents
Child-Perception
Habitation, baby will look if it’s new stimulus then will get bored, spalding, chick’s in a sac releases could run to mothers,innate
Lashley rats in the dark 3 months had it rats for 300 days did not have it
Gibson and walk
Lab rm visual cliff
27/36 crawled to mothers on shallow
Child- learning
Accommodation, new info new schema, assimilation, new info old schema
Wood, tutoring puzzles direct interventions decreases by half each age, increasing age more success level and type of support differed per age scaffolding
Child- advertising
Johnson and Young, content analysis, more boy adverts, 21%boy said power 1 girl said power, ads show gender stereotypes
Child- attachment
Bowlby, babies form attachment for survival, harlow, wire mother cloth mother, lorenz geese imprinting,ainsworth and Bell, strange situation,
Crime- what makes a criminal
Raine-ngri, pet scan continuous performance task, findings prefrontal lower activity, loss of self control, amygdala thalamus hippocampus lower on right side lack of inhibition fearlessness failure to learn negative effects
Child- forensic evidence
Dorothy,bias confirmation observer expectancy selective determination overconfidence, Brandon Mayfield Madrid bombing , Hall and player lab exp met office 70 police , forgery/murder 52% High context said effected 6% low said effected, final decisions made were similar regardless
