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Ambnormal Behavior Ch.1-3
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Psychology
Undergraduate 2
01/22/2007

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psych-diagnosis`
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attempt to describe, asses, systematically draw interference about a person's psychological disorder
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Controlling Abnormal Behavior
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Controlled through therapy(biological or psychological), which modifies a client's (or a patients) behavorial, affective (enotional) or cognitive (thinking) state.
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Abnormal Psychology
Definition
Scientific study of strange behavior or unusual behavior
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Statistical Deviation
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Equates normality with behaviors that occur most frquently in the population. Abnormality is defined in terms of less frequently occuring behavior. Fails to consider cultural values or creative behavior, which is less frequent.
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Discomfort
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Physical or psychological discomfort is a cause for referral
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bizarreness of behavior
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Odd strange behavior judged as abnormal in most situations
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hallucination
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seeing or heariwng things that don't exist
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delusions
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having false beliefs
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disorientation
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confusion with regards to identity
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Inefficiency(Dysfunction)
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Failing to stand up to one's potential and failure in performancce
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psychological tests
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determine inefficiencies
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Clinical Psychology
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Profession, which deals with assessment(diagnosis) and treatment of abnormal behavior usually without the use of drugs
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Counseling psychology
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Deals with problems mostly in relation with normal persons
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mental health counseling
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deals with providing counseling and various therapeutic techniques to basically normal persons
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psychiatry
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medical profession, which deals with assessment and treatment of mentally ill persons, usually using medication
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psychoanalysis
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method of treatment proposed by Freud.
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trephining
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crude operation performed by Stone Age men, chipping the skull with a sharp object such as a stone
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exorcism
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practiced in the middle ages to cast off evil spirits
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Hoppocrates
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Felt devient behavior was caused by brain pathology. Classified illness into mania, melacholia, and brain fever. Tranquility
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Tarantism
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Dance mania
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Lycanthropy
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victims imagined they were wolves
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Humanism Movement
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emphasized human welfare, the worth and uniqueness of the person.
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Johan Weyer
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stated persons who were tortured
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Phillip Pinel
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founder of moral treatment
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Emil Kraeplin
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founder of The Biological (organic) viewpoint (Somatogenic View). Believed mental illnesses have physiological (biological or organic) causes. Classification was the basis for DSM
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Mesmer
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challenged the organic point of view. His work was the forerunner of hypnotism. He treated hysteria
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3 major factors contributed to our current understanding of abnormal behavior
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a. The drug revolution in psychiatry and prescription priviliges for psychologists
b. increased research in abnormal psychology
c. the belief that abnormal behavior has multifactor causes,(biological, psycological, and sociological factors and the use of bio-psychosocial model
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Model
Definition
used to describe something that cannot be observed directly
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Eccletic Model
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using a variety of perspectives is employed by and ecletic psychologist to describe, explain, predict, and control abnormal behavior
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Biological models
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State that mental disorders are correlated with brain dysfunction and can be treated with medication, or other biomedical techniques
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Neurons
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Nerve cells that transmit messages
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Neurotransmitters
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chemicals released in the synapses forebrain (higher brain) contols all higher mental functions such as learning, speech, thought, and memory.
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Mid brain
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involved in vision and hearing
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Hindbrain (lowbrain)
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controls vegatative functions such as heart rate, sleep, and respiration.
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Biochemistry
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affects behavior.
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Chemical imbalance
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underlies mental disorders.
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Axons
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how meassages travek through the brain by elctrical impulses via neurons
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Electrical Impulses
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Cross the synapses by the release of chemical called neurotransmitters
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2 Neurotransmitter types:
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Excitatory and inhibitory which alter the behavior imbalance of neuro transmitters and is correlated to mental illness
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Diathesis
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reders to pre-disposition to develop a certain illness
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opposing instincts
Definition
live vs. death
love vs. hate
aggressive vs. care
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Realistic Anxiety
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Caused by a realistic physical or psychological threat to the ego
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Moralisitic Anxiety
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caused by a conflict between id and ego. Ego experienced anxiety due to the threat of unwanted id impulses
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Neurotic
Definition
Exaggerated behavior
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Reaction formation
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Doing the opposite of one's true feelingd
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Projection
Definition
Blaming others for one's shortcomings or problems
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Displacement
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Directing hostility towards a substitute target
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Neo Freudian
Definition
Emphasizes the importance of ego.
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