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Chapter 2
historical perspectives
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Psychology
Undergraduate 1
05/02/2013

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paradigm change
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shifting from a medical model to a biopsychosocial model
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hippocrates
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first to advocate naturalistic expectations for disturbed behaviors
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monasteries
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these people frequently started the first asylums devoted entirely to the care of mentally impaired
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dorthea dix
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founded/enlarged more than 30 state institutions for the proper custody and treatment of mental patients
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rene descartes
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credited with philosophical belief of separation of mind and body
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one symptom
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kraeplins third category, paranoia, occurred less frequently than his other two symptom patterns
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laying on hands
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benjamin rush advocated all of the following as effective treatments of abnormal behavior except
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general paresis
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characterized by delusions, grandeur, dementia, progressive paralysis. caused by sexually transmitted spirochete
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mesmerism
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1700s procedures used to induce trances and other altered states of consciousness
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insensitive
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in hemianesthesia, the whole once side of the body becomes
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la belle indifference
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characteristic of multiple personality disorder
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classical conditioning
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learning process where a neutral stimulus elicits a response as a result of pairing it with a stimulus that causes that response
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extinction
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occurs when frequency and strength of conditioned response tends to decrease after repeated presentations of the conditioned stimulus without unconditioned stimulus
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organic view
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belief that bnormal behavior is caused primarily by biological factors
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trephining
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tools, prob. of stone, were used to make hole in skull to aid in escape of demons
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dualism
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belief that mind and body are separate, different laws
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abasia
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the inability to walk
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unconditioned stimulus
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stimulus that is naturally capable of eliciting conditioned response
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unconditioned response
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response occurs naturally or innately to an unconditioned stimulus
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conditioned stimulus
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originally neutral stimulus that becomes capable of eliciting a response
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conditioned response
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response elicited by a condition stimulus after repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus
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operant conditioning
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type of learning where consequences of a response control its occurrence
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paradigm
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model or framework from which to view a phenomenon
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johann weyer and reginald scott
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2- spoke against mental illness being caused by demos
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hippocrates and galen
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2- ancient greeks/romans proposed that disordered brains cause disordered behavior
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