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Historical Views Flashcards

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1
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What is statistical infrequency? (Gen criteria)

A

how rare the behavior is

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2
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What is the general criteria for abnormal psych?

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Stat. infrequency, deviance from norms, dysfunction, distress, dangerousness

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What can deviance from social norms depend on?

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Culture

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4
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what is a question to be asked in dysfunction?

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does it have a lasting impact on you

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5
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What applies for dangerousness?

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To ourselves or others

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6
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What can’t you force someone to get?

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Treatment unless they are a danger to themselves or others

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7
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Who would you consult in the case of abnormal behavior?

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Clinical psychologist, counselor, psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker

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8
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What are the 3 historical models?

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supernatural, biological, physiological

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What are the possible causes of supernatural?

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Action of gods, spirits or demons, movement of stars or planets, witchcraft

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10
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What are possible treatments for supernatural?

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Exorcisms, beatings, torture, trephination (holes in skull)

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11
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What was another name for Hippocrates?

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Father of medicine

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What did Hippocrates think of as the postulated causes?

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Brain pathology, head trauma, genetics

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13
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What did Hippocrates think of the brain as?

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The seat of consciousness

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14
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What did Hippocrates classify?

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Abnormal behavior patterns

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15
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What is melancholia?

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depression

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16
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What is mania?

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Panic disorder

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17
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What is phrentis?

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Schizophrenia

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18
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What was the four humors theory of Hippocrates?

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Blood (sanguine)
Yellow bile (choleric)
Black bile (melancholic)
Phlegm (phlegmatic)

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19
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What did Hippocrates think about the four humors theory?

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That what kind of humor you had impacted what sickness or temperament you would have

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20
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What was Pasteur’s germ theory?

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see medical problems caused by things you can’t even see

21
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What was general paresis?

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Symptoms experienced were similar to those of schizophrenia, end stage of siphillus infection

22
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What did Philippe Pinel and Jean-Baptiste Pussin believe

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we need to treat patients like people and treat them well

23
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What did Philippe Pinel and Jean do in asylums?

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Treated patients humanely,
Unchained patients
Encouraged them to have social interaction
Small staff to patient ratio

24
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What movement did Dorthea Dix start?

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Mental hygiene movement

25
Q

What did Mesmer do?

A

He did like the hypnosis thing and started the beginnings of hypnosis

26
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What were the psychological figureheads?

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Jean-Martin Charcot, Josef Breuer, and Sigmund Freud

27
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What were the four important themes?

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Biological discoveries
Classification system
Experimental psych research
Emergence of psych causation viewpoint

28
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Who was Emil Kraepelin?

A

outlined the cause, course, and outcomes of various syndromes

29
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What were the psychodynamic principles?

A

results from unconscious conflicts
behavior is determined by intrapsychic forces
affected by childhood experiences

30
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What were the 4 major components of psychopathy?

A

Topographical model (consciousness)

Structure

Psychosexual development

Defense mechanisms

31
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What were the elements in the topographic model of consciousness?

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Conscious, preconscious, unconscious (superego, ego, id

32
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What is the id?

A

primitive part of mind that contains drive and hidden memories

33
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What is the ego

A

realistic part that mediates desires of id and superego

34
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What is the superego?

A

moral conscious, uphold highest values

35
Q

What are the stages of psychosexual development?

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Oral (birth-11/2)
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital

36
Q

What involves the defense mechanisms of the mind?

A

Trying to reduce stress or anxiety

Involve denial or distortion of reality

Operate at an unconscious level

Operate mechanically and involuntarily

37
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What are the defense mechanisms?

A

Repression
Reaction formation
Projection
Displacement
Sublimation

37
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What is repression?

A

blocking of unpleasant things

38
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What is reaction formation?

A

express opposite of true feelings

39
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What is projection?

A

displacing ones feelings onto another person

40
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what is displacement?

A

redirects emotional reaction from rightful recipient to another person or object

41
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What is sublimation?

A

redirects energy from unpleasant place into a more socially acceptable one

42
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What is insight therapy?

A

Attempt to bring unconscious material to consciousness

43
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What is interpretation?

A

Free association
Dream analysis
Resistance
Transference

44
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What is free association?

A

One word or image may suggest another without any apparent connection

45
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What is dream analysis?

A

Looking at dreams to reveal unconscious motivations

46
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What is resistance in psych?

A

Any opposition to mental processes of healing

47
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What is transference?

A

redirecting feelings about something to something else

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