Midterms Flashcards
A psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected
Psychological disorder
Breakdown in cognitive, emotional or behavioral functioning
Psychological dysfunction
Scientific study of Psychological disorders
Psychopathology
How many people in the population as a whole have the disorder
Prevalence
Statistics on how many new cases occur during a given period such as year
Incidence
Follow a somewhat individual pattern
Course
Pattern that tend to last a long time
Chronic course
Recover within a few months only to suffer a recurrence of the disorder at a later time
Episodic course
Improve without any treatment in a relatively short period
Tome-limited course
Anticipated course of the disorder
Prognosis
Study of origins has yo do with why a disorder begins and includes biological, Psychological, and social dimensions
Etiology
Religious rituals were performed to rid the victim of the spirits
Exorcisms
Common treatments i Supernatural Traditions
Rest, sleep, and a healthy and happy environment.
Baths, ointments, and various potions
One of the chief advisers to the king of france, a bishop and philosopher named_____ suggested that the diseases of melancholy (depression) was the source of some bizarre behavior rather than demons
Nicholas Oresme
King of France with mental disorder in 14th century
King Charles VI of France
Phenomenon of emotion contagion in which the experience of an emotion seems to spread those around us.
Mass hysteria
A Swiss physician who lived for 1493 to 1541, rejected notions of possession nh the devil, suggesting instead that the movements of the moon and stars had profound effects on people’s psychological functioning
Paracelsus
Greek physician who is considered to the father of modern western Medicine
Hippocrates
Work of Hippocrates written between 450 and 359 BC in which they suggested that psychological disorders could be treated like any other disease
Hippocratic Corpus
Roman physician, later adopted the ideas of Hippocrates and developed them further creating a powerful and influential school of thought within the biological tradition
Galen
Normal brain functioning was related to four bodily fluids or humors; blood, black nile, yellow bile and phlegm
Humoral theory of disorders
Humoral theory if disorders
Blood- heart
Black bile- spleen
Phlegm - brain
Choler/yellow bile- liver
First example of associating psychological disorders with a chemical imbalance
Humoral theory
Literal meaning red like blood. Someone who is ruddy in complexion, cheerful and optimistic
Sanguine
Means depressive. Caused by black bile flooding the brain
Melancholic
Apathy and sluggishness, calm under stress, humor phlegm
Phlegmatic
Hot tempered
Choleric person
Measured amount of blood was removed from the body, often with leaches.
Bloodletting
Eating tobacco and half boiled cabbage
Induced vomiting
Movement of air or wind throughout the body. Restoring proper flow of the wind throughout various methods
Acupuncture
Sexually transmitted disease cause by a bacterial microorganisms entering the brain .
Syphilis
Invented the germ theory of disease
Louis Pasteur
Identification of the specific bacterial microorganism that caused syphilis
Germ theory of disease
According to _____causes of insanity were always physical. Mentally ill patient should be treated as physically ill.
John P. Grey
Discovered the electric shock and brain surgery
Benjamin Franklin
One of the founding fathers of modern psychiatry.
Emil Kraepelin
