Recording #2

Question 1

Epidemiology

Answer 1

Study of epidemic diseases

Branch of medical science

Question 2

Recoding how many cases are developed IN A SPECIFIC PEROID OF TIME (usually 1 year)

Answer 2

Incidence

Question 3

How many cases do we have right now? How many people are living with the disorder, IN A SPECIFIC PERIOD OF TIME.
How deadly is something and how likely are people to recover.

Answer 3

Prevalence

Question 4

This can be seen, measured, and counted.

Answer 4

Behavior

Question 5

Stuttering is a?

Answer 5

Behavior

Question 6

This may not be considered an accurate measure of stuttering?

Answer 6

Attitude

Question 7

Stuttering can be?

Answer 7

silent

Question 8

Why is stuttering hard to define/operationalize?

Answer 8

It is difficult to define because we may agree on core features, but there may be so much more going on like attitudes and emotions. People can’t agree on a physical, emotional, or combined definition. A definition is crucial to developing a theory or cause.
No definition–>No Theory–>No Cause

Question 9

Name That Theorist:

He approached everything as a neurosis.

Answer 9

Freud

Question 10

Name That Theorist:
He says stuttering is a neurotic disorder, personality disturbance, and a reflection of the competing desires to talk and remain silent.

Answer 10

Freud

Question 11

Name That Theorist:
Stuttering is a fault and personality flaw. Somebody caused it (MOM)
Mom did not respond appropriately

Answer 11

Freud

Question 12

Name That Theorist:

This person represented a paradime shift in psychology. 1900-1940

Answer 12

Freud

Question 13

Name That Theorist:

Cerebral Dominance Theory

Answer 13

Oroton and Travis in the 1920’s

Question 14

What is the Cerebral Dominance Theory?

Oroton and Travis in the 1920’s

Answer 14

• Lack of central synchronization in the brain
• The midline did not act in concert
• Non-dominant hemisphere struggled to keep up
• Dominant hemisphere provided the pacing of speech

Question 15

Name That Theorist:
-Lack of cerebral processing center on one side of the brain, which was powerful enough to impose tiny patterns on the other hemisphere is viewed as basic organic factor in stuttering.

Answer 15

Oroton and Travis in the 1920’s

Question 16

Name That Theorist:

• Motor speech could not be smoothly coordinated
• Stutterers who were left handed were forced to be right handed (cerebral dominance theory)

Answer 16

Oroton and Travis in the 1920’s

Question 17

Name That Theorist:

• Stuttering is in the ear of the listener
• Someone is to blame
• Overcritical mothers cause stuttering due to undo attention to normal disfluencies
• This promoted blame
• Associated with the monster study

Answer 17

Wendell Johnson 1930’s

Question 18

Name That Theorist:

• Worked with Wendell Johnson
• Iowa Therapy 40’s-60’s-today
• Emotional Theory
• Came out in opposition to the cerebral dominance theory

Answer 18

VanRiper 1940’s

Question 19

What are the 2 Goals of VanRiper’s Iowa Therapy?

Answer 19

1. Desensitization: reduce shame and anxiety caused by stuttering
2. Stuttering Modification: teach stutters to modify the way they stutter
   - accept the stutter and relax
   - Reduce the tension