Chapter 1 - Foundations Flashcards
Affect
Experience of feeling or emotion
Clinically significant
Meaning the disorder causes substantial impairment in social occupational or other areas of functioning
Maladaptive
Behaviour that interferes with a persons ability to meet the requirements of every day life
Who was the first professor of psychology in Australia taking up the position of the Department of psychology in the University of Sydney in 1929?
Henry Tasman Lovell
What Program allows Australians to receive a Medicare rebate for seeing a psychologist and when was that started?
Better access initiative in 2006 November when they federal government introduced the Better Access to mental health care program
What elements constitute abnormality?
For elements statistical rarity deviance or norm violation distress and dysfunction
What is currently the dominant and oldest perspective on mental illness?
The biological perspective/medical perspective
Dementia
Neurological disorder in which a gradual decline of intellectual functioning occurs
Syndrome
Set of symptoms that tend to occur together
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Treatment for mood disorders that involve the induction of a brain seizure bypassing an electrical current through the patient sprain well he she is anaesthetised.
Psychosurgery
Biological treatment such as a lobotomy for a psychological disorder in which a neurosurgeon attempts to destroy small areas of the brain thought to be involved in producing the patients symptoms
Pre-frontal cortex
Region at the front of the brain important in language emotional expression the planning and production of new ideas and the mediation of social interactions
Biological approach
Theories that explain abnormal behaviours in terms of a biological dysfunction also called the medical approach
Enlarged ventricles
Fluid filled spaces in the brain that are larger than normal and suggest a deterioration in brain tissue
