Vocabulary
This is a procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior.
Treatment or therapy
This person saw abnormal behavior as a disease caused by internal physical problems.
Hippocrates
Skulls recovered from the Stone Age showed where a circular part of the skull was cut away in an operation called trephination. Why was this type of operation performed?
The people believed that it would release the evil spirit that was causing the abnormal behavior.
This research procedure is used to determine the "co-relationship" between variables.
Although no single definition of abnormal mental functioning is universally accepted, most definitions share four common features. What are the four features?
Referred to as the Four D's: Diviance, Distress, Dysfunction and Danger
This is a detailed account of a person's life and psychological problems.
Case Study
Considered the father of American psychiatry, he is responsible for the early spread of moral treatment for the United States.
Benjamin Rush
During the Renaissance Era culture and scientific activity flourished and for those suffering from psychological abnormalities a rise in this kind of treatment.
Asylums
In this type of experiment some individuals are given a placebo while others are given the actual treatment.
Blind Design
A therapy format in which a group of people with similar problems meet together with a therapist to work on those problems.
Group Therapy
A set of assumptions and concepts that help scientists explain and interpret observations.
Model
This person developed the theory of psychoanalysis to explain normal and abnormal psychology. Believing that three central forces, the id, ego and superego, shape the personality.
Sigmund Freud
Being kind to patients, doing things with them and even giving small gifts to them is referred to as this kind of treatment.
Moral
What is one of the four alternative experimental designs?
Quasi-experiments
Natural Experiment
Analogue Experiment
Single-Subject Experiemnt
When studying biological abnormalities some believe that abnormalities in brain anatomy or chemistry are sometimes the reusult of what?
Genetic Inheritance
Drugs that mainly affect the brain and reduce many symptoms of mental dysfunctioning.
Psychotropic Drugs
He conducted a famous experiment that is still vital to understanding psychology today, in which he used a dog, food and a bell.
Ivan Pavlov
Hypnotism
To reduce the effects of pre-existing differences, experiments typically use what?
Random Assignment
Patients suffering from abnormal behaviors have found some help in emotions and thought processes by using these drugs discovered in the 1950's.
Psychotropic Drugs
Humanistic therapy developed by Fritz Perls in which clinicians actively move clients toward self-recognition and self-awareness by using techniques such as role playing and self-discovery.
Gestalt Therapy
Published an influential textbook arguing that physical factors, such as fatigue, are responsible for mental dysfunction. He identified various syndromes and listed their physical causes.
Emil Kraepelin
Despite the general optimism, biological appoaches yielded mostly diappointing results. Many treatments that involved surgery on the brain causing other issues to arrise for the patient after nerve fibers were cut in the brain were used. What was this procedure called?
Lobotomy
In experiments there are differnt types of variables. What are the 2 variables and what is the difference between them.
Independent Variable: variable that is manipulated in an experiment.
Dependent Variable: variable that is expected to change due to the manipulation of the independent variable.
Name two of the six models of Abnormal Psychology.
Biological Model, Psychodynamic Model,
Behavioral Model, Cognitive Model
Humanistic-Existential Model, Sociocultural Model