Chapter 1 Flashcards
What is a “Clinical Psychologist “
A person with graduate training in psychology specializing in abnormal behaviour
Must have a license with a provincial psychological regulatory body
What is a “Psychiatrist”
Physician who specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of mental disorders
What is the “Medical Model”
A “biological” perspective where abnormal behaviour is viewed as underlying mental illness or disorders
What is the 6 criteria for determining if behaviour is “abnormal”
- Behaviour is unusual
- Behaviour is socially unacceptable
- Perception of reality is false
- The person is in significant distress
- The behaviour is maladaptive and self-defeating (unhappiness)
- The behaviour is dangerous (to others and self)
What is Trephining
drilling a hole in a persons skull to let out demons that are possessing it
What is the Demonological Model
a model that explains abnormal behaviour in terms of supernatural forces
Who argued that illness of the body and mind were the result of natural causes, not of possession by supernatural spirits
Hippocrates
Hippocrates believed that the health of the body and mind depended on the balance of _______.
Humours
What are Humours
four fluids in the body
- phlegm
- black bile
- blood
- yellow bile
A person who was seen as “Sluggish” was believed to have excess phlegm, they were called _______
Phlegmatic
Excess black bile was seen as the cause of depression, it was called _____.
Melancholia
Excess of blood was seen as the cause of being cheerful, confident, and optimistic, this was called _______
Sangiune
Having access yellow bile made people quick tempered (bilious), this was also called _______
Choleric
What was “Malleus Maleficarum”
a manual for witch hunting
“the witches hammer”
What was the first asylum in North America
Hotel Dieu in Quebec City
