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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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| Scientific study of strange behavior or unusual behavior |
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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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| Physical or psychological discomfort is a cause for referral |
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| Odd strange behavior judged as abnormal in most situations |
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| seeing or heariwng things that don't exist |
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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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| Profession, which deals with assessment(diagnosis) and treatment of abnormal behavior usually without the use of drugs |
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| Deals with problems mostly in relation with normal persons |
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| deals with providing counseling and various therapeutic techniques to basically normal persons |
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| medical profession, which deals with assessment and treatment of mentally ill persons, usually using medication |
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| method of treatment proposed by Freud. |
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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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| practiced in the middle ages to cast off evil spirits |
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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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| victims imagined they were wolves |
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| emphasized human welfare, the worth and uniqueness of the person. |
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| stated persons who were tortured |
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| founder of moral treatment |
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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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| 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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| used to describe something that cannot be observed directly |
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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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| State that mental disorders are correlated with brain dysfunction and can be treated with medication, or other biomedical techniques |
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| Nerve cells that transmit messages |
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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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| involved in vision and hearing |
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| controls vegatative functions such as heart rate, sleep, and respiration. |
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| underlies mental disorders. |
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| how meassages travek through the brain by elctrical impulses via neurons |
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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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| reders to pre-disposition to develop a certain illness |
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live vs. death
love vs. hate
aggressive vs. care |
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| Caused by a realistic physical or psychological threat to the ego |
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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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| Doing the opposite of one's true feelingd |
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| Blaming others for one's shortcomings or problems |
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| Directing hostility towards a substitute target |
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| Emphasizes the importance of ego. |
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