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Operant conditioning is associated with who?

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Thorndike (1874-1949)

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Ego

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Deals with reality - reality principle - mediates between demands of reality and the demands of the Id for immediate gratification

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Name the 2 components of systematic desensitisation

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Deep muscle relaxtion Gradual exposure to feared situation

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The belief that odd behaviour was caused by possession, led to what method of treatment?

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Exorcism

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In what 3 ways does Freud still have influence today?

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  1. Childhood experiences help shape adult personality 2. There are unconscious influences on behaviour 3. The causes and purposes of human behaviour are not always obvious
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2 examples of mental health and health profession strategies

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Mental health evaluations Education and training

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Id

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Seeks pleasure - immediate gratification - pleasure principle

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What did Charcot ( 1825 - 1893) believe about hysteria? What method did he use to treat it?

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He believed it was both physical and psychological and used hypnosis to treat it

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What does behaviorism focus on?

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Observable behaviour

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Rational emotive behaviour therapy assumptions

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Emotional reactions as a result of things people tell themselves Concept of demandingness the must and shoulds people place upon themselves

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How many people had been forcibly sterilised by 1945?

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45,000

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A movement that prevented certain people from having kids and getting married and forced sterilisations

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Eugenics movement

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What is the most stigmatised condition in the 21st century?

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Psychological disorders

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What are the 5 stages of psychosexual development?

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Oral anal phallic latency genital

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What 3 classifications did Hippocrates use for psychological disorders?

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Mania Melancholia Phrenitis (brain fever)

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Cognitive therapy

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By changing the way people think, therapists hope to change the way their clients feel and behave and reduce symtpoms

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What 3 parts make up the structure of the mind (psyche)?

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Id Ego Superego

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Give an example of negative reinforcement

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Smack a child for doing wrong, then give it a toy. The toy becomes a reinforcer

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Positive reinforcement

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A behaviour is likely to be repeated when a pleasant event occurs

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Who joined with Brueur to develop psychoanalysis?

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Freud ( 1856-1939)

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Freud believed that human behaviour was determined by what?

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Forces inaccessible to awareness

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Operant techniques were most effective for treating what?

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Childhood problems through the use of intermittent reinforcement

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What 3 techniques are used in psychoanalysis

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Free association Interpretation Analysis of transference

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Who developed the cathartic method for treating hysteria?

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Breuer ( 1842-1925)

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Hippocrates believed that mental health depended on a delicate balance of 4 humours. What are they? And what conditions did each of these imbalances produce?
Phlegm - sluggish and dull Black bile - melancholia Yellow bile - Irritability and anxiousness Blood - Changeable temperament
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Examples of demonological thinking can be found in the records of which early civilisations?
Chinese Egyprians Babylonians Greeks
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Psychoanalytic theory (psychoanalysis)
A method used to understand early childhood experiences, the nature of key relationships, and the pattern of current relationships
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What was Galton's field of study and when did he have influence?
Genetics 1822-1911
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Describe the law of effect
Behaviour which leads to a positive consequence is likely to be repeated Behaviour that leads to a negative consequence is likely to be discouraged
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What are the 4 characteristics of stigma?
1 - Label applied to a group of people that distinguishes them from others 2. Label linked to deviant or undesirable attributes by society 3. Contributes to an "us and them" mentality 4. Discrimination of people with the label
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What is Pavlov (1849-1936) famous for?
Classical conditioning
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What does Breuer's cathartic method involve?
Hypnosis to release emotional tension
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What is Mesmer known for?
An early practitioner of modern day hypnosis
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3 examples of community strategies
Housing options Education Personal contact
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4 examples of public health strategies
Parity in Insurance coverage Discriminatory laws Employment Decriminalisation
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What is the Eugenics movement?
A movement that prevented certain people from having kids and getting married and forced sterilisations
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In the 5th Century, Hippocrates (The father if modern medicine) believed that mental disorders were caused by what?
Natural causes - Brain pathology
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When did behaviour therapy begin
In the 50's
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What sexually-transmitted disease led to biological causes being recognised as explanations for causes of psychopathology
Syphillis \>\>\> General paresis
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There are 2 types of reinforcement. What are they?
Positive Negative
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What did Mesmer believed caused hysteria?
It was concerned with the distribution of universal magnetic fluid in the body
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Describe 3 things associated with individual psychology
People inextricable tied to their society - fulfillment in doing things for social good Helping people change their illogical and mistaken ideas and expectations Start of behaviour therapy
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What 4 things are associated with analytical psychology
Collective unconscious Masculine and feminine traits Spiritual and religious urges are as basic as Id urges Introversion-extroversion
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Defence mechanisms
Strategies used by the ego to protect itself from anxiety
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What has contributed to stigmatisation?
The ways that people with psychological disorders were treated in history
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Modelling
Learning through watching and imitating others
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Name the 5 characteristics of psychological disorders
1. Occurs within the Individual 2.Clinically significant in thinking, feeling, and behaving 3. Personal Distress involved 4. Not a culturally specific reaction to an event 5. Not primarily as a result of social deviance or conflict
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4 strategic approaches for fighting against stigma
Policy and legislative strategies Community strategies Individual and family strategies Mental health and health profession strategies
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Superego
Conscience - Incorporates parental values
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What is psychoanalytic theory based on?
The idea that psychopathology results from unconscious conflicts within individuals
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What does operant conditioning explore?
The effects of consequences on behaviour
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Roots of cognitive therapy
Beck's cognitive therapy Ellis - Rational emotive behaviour therapy
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Analytical psychology associated with who?
Jung 1875-1961
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Negative reinforcement
A behaviour is likely to be repeated via removal of aversive agent
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2 examples of individual and family strategies
Education for individuals and families Support and advocacy groups
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When did modelling techniques start to be used?
In the 60's
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The field of individual psychology is connected to who?
Adler 1870 - 1937
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What treatments did hypocrates suggest for melancholia?
Tranquility, sobriety, good eating and drinking, and abstinence from sexual activity - i.e a naturalistic approach
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Why do many textbooks begin with a chapter on the history of the field?
Important to consider how concepts and approaches have changed (or not) over time We can learn from past mistakes, and appreciate how current concepts and approaches may change in the future
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Who is associated with modelling
Bandura, 1968
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Give 3 examples of early biological treatments
Insulin induced comas ECT therapy Prefrontal labotomies
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What does a fixation at any of these 5 stages lead to?
regression

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