Historical Views Flashcards
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What is statistical infrequency? (Gen criteria)
how rare the behavior is
What is the general criteria for abnormal psych?
Stat. infrequency, deviance from norms, dysfunction, distress, dangerousness
What can deviance from social norms depend on?
Culture
what is a question to be asked in dysfunction?
does it have a lasting impact on you
What applies for dangerousness?
To ourselves or others
What can’t you force someone to get?
Treatment unless they are a danger to themselves or others
Who would you consult in the case of abnormal behavior?
Clinical psychologist, counselor, psychiatrist, psychiatric social worker
What are the 3 historical models?
supernatural, biological, physiological
What are the possible causes of supernatural?
Action of gods, spirits or demons, movement of stars or planets, witchcraft
What are possible treatments for supernatural?
Exorcisms, beatings, torture, trephination (holes in skull)
What was another name for Hippocrates?
Father of medicine
What did Hippocrates think of as the postulated causes?
Brain pathology, head trauma, genetics
What did Hippocrates think of the brain as?
The seat of consciousness
What did Hippocrates classify?
Abnormal behavior patterns
What is melancholia?
depression
What is mania?
Panic disorder
What is phrentis?
Schizophrenia
What was the four humors theory of Hippocrates?
Blood (sanguine)
Yellow bile (choleric)
Black bile (melancholic)
Phlegm (phlegmatic)
What did Hippocrates think about the four humors theory?
That what kind of humor you had impacted what sickness or temperament you would have
What was Pasteur’s germ theory?
see medical problems caused by things you can’t even see
What was general paresis?
Symptoms experienced were similar to those of schizophrenia, end stage of siphillus infection
What did Philippe Pinel and Jean-Baptiste Pussin believe
we need to treat patients like people and treat them well
What did Philippe Pinel and Jean do in asylums?
Treated patients humanely,
Unchained patients
Encouraged them to have social interaction
Small staff to patient ratio
What movement did Dorthea Dix start?
Mental hygiene movement
What did Mesmer do?
He did like the hypnosis thing and started the beginnings of hypnosis
What were the psychological figureheads?
Jean-Martin Charcot, Josef Breuer, and Sigmund Freud
What were the four important themes?
Biological discoveries
Classification system
Experimental psych research
Emergence of psych causation viewpoint
Who was Emil Kraepelin?
outlined the cause, course, and outcomes of various syndromes
What were the psychodynamic principles?
results from unconscious conflicts
behavior is determined by intrapsychic forces
affected by childhood experiences
What were the 4 major components of psychopathy?
Topographical model (consciousness)
Structure
Psychosexual development
Defense mechanisms
What were the elements in the topographic model of consciousness?
Conscious, preconscious, unconscious (superego, ego, id
What is the id?
primitive part of mind that contains drive and hidden memories
What is the ego
realistic part that mediates desires of id and superego
What is the superego?
moral conscious, uphold highest values
What are the stages of psychosexual development?
Oral (birth-11/2)
Anal
Phallic
Latency
Genital
What involves the defense mechanisms of the mind?
Trying to reduce stress or anxiety
Involve denial or distortion of reality
Operate at an unconscious level
Operate mechanically and involuntarily
What are the defense mechanisms?
Repression
Reaction formation
Projection
Displacement
Sublimation
What is repression?
blocking of unpleasant things
What is reaction formation?
express opposite of true feelings
What is projection?
displacing ones feelings onto another person
what is displacement?
redirects emotional reaction from rightful recipient to another person or object
What is sublimation?
redirects energy from unpleasant place into a more socially acceptable one
What is insight therapy?
Attempt to bring unconscious material to consciousness
What is interpretation?
Free association
Dream analysis
Resistance
Transference
What is free association?
One word or image may suggest another without any apparent connection
What is dream analysis?
Looking at dreams to reveal unconscious motivations
What is resistance in psych?
Any opposition to mental processes of healing
What is transference?
redirecting feelings about something to something else
