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1854, Grey appointed superintendent of the

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Utica state hospital in N.Y

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Founder of behaviorism

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John B. Watson

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Most influential American psychiatrist

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John P Grey

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Father of modern western medicine

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Hippocrates

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5
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Sanguine - from heart

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Red bile

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Spleen - melancholic

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Black bile

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Brain - apathy and sluggishness

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Phlegm

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Liver - hot tempered

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Yellow/choler

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9
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4D’s of abpsych

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Deviance
Distress
Dysfunctional
Dangerousness

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10
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3 categories of research about psych dis.

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Description
Causation
Treatment and outcomes

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How many people have the disease?
The number of cases of a disease in a specific population at a specific period of time

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Prevalence

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How many new cases occurred?
Rate of new cases occuring in a specific population

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Incidence

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Course that lasts a long time (Schizophrenia)

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Chronic course

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Course that is likely to recover after a few months (Mood disorders)

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Episodic course

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15
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Onset that begins suddenly

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Acute onset

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Onset that develops gradually over an extended period

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Insidious onset

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17
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The anticipated course of a disorder

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Prognosis

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18
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First great emotion theorist

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Charles Darwin

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19
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Conscious, subjective aspect of an emotion that accompanies an action at a given time
The valence dimension of an emotion

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Affect

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20
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Model describing different emotions as points in a 2,-dimensional space of valence and arousal

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Circumplex model

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21
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We must consider a number of paths to a given outcome
Behavior or disorder may have different causes

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The principle of equifinality

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22
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Two types of neurotransmitters

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Monoamines and amino acids

23
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Referred to as the chemical brothers

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GABA and glutamate

24
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Reduces overall arousal

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GABA

25
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He first described the concept learned helplessness

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Martin Seligman

26
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Emotion is composed of three related components ___

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Behavior
Physiology
Cognition

27
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Low levels of Dopamine causes

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Parkinson’s

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High levels of Dopamine causes

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Schizophrenia

29
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Low levels of acetylcholine causes

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Alzheimer’s

30
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Low levels of norepinephrine causes

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Depression

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High levels of norepinephrine causes

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Mania

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High levels of GABA causes

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Relaxation

33
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Low levels of GABA causes

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Anxiety/OCD

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High levels of serotonin causes

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Mania

35
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Low levels of serotonin causes

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Depression
Anxiety
Eating disorders

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High levels of epinephrine causes

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Stress
Sleep disorder

37
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Low levels of epinephrine causes

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Fatigue

38
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High levels of glutamate causes

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Psychosis
Neuron death

39
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Low levels of glutamate causes

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Huntingdon’s disease

40
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Low levels of endorphin causes

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Eating disorders

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Lower and more ancient part of the brain; essential for autonomic functions

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Brain stem

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Regulates breathing, heartbeat, digestion

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Hindbrain

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Controls motor coordination abnormalities associated with autism

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Cerebellum

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coordinates movements with sensory
input and contains parts of reticular activating
system (contributes to sleep, arousal and tension)

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Midbrain

45
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involved in regulating behavior, emotions, and hormones

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Thalamus and hypothalamus

46
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This system helps regulate our emotional experiences and expressions and, to some extent, our ability to learn and to control our impulses. It is also involved with the basic drives of sex, aggression, hunger, and thirst.

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Limbic system

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involved in changing our posture, control motor activity

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Basal ganglia

48
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Part of the limbic system responsible for emotions

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Amygdala

49
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Shrinks when a person have
depression

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Hippocampus

50
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provides us with our distinctly
human qualities, allowing us to look to the future and plan, to reason, and to create

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Cerebral cortex

51
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Master gland

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pituitary

52
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controls metabolism and growth (thyroxine)

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Thyroid

53
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Controls level of calcium

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Parathyroid

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Controls metabolism, BP, sex development, stress

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Adrenal / Epinephrine

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