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Abnormal Psych 1
Exam 1
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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
09/18/2013

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What are the four Ds in definining abnormal behavior?
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Deviance, Distress, Dysfunction, and Danger
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Limitations of Deviance
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Judgments of abnormality vary from society to society
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Limitations of Distress
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Not always the case
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Limitations of Dysfunction
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Dependent upon social judgments
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Limitations of Danger
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Has exceptions
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Wakefield's notion of Harmful Dysfunction
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An undesirable trait fails to optimally perform the specific function that it was evolutionarily designed to perform
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Clinical Psychologists
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Diagnosis, treatment, and testing
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Psychiatrists
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Diagnosis, treatment, and medical interventions
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Social Workers
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Treatment, particularly group and family therapy
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Demonology
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Abnormal behavior as the work of evil spirits
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Somatogenic Perspective
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Hippocrates believed that illnesses were caused by imbalance of yellow bile, black bile, blood, and phlegm
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Renaissance
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Mentaly ill sent to either the religious shrine Gheel or to overcrowded asylums
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Moral Treatment
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Treatment of individuals as first and foremost human beings
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Pinel & Tuke
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Founders of Moral Treatment
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Rush & Dix
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Primary proponents of moral treatment is U.S.
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Mental Hygiene Movement
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Science of promoting mental health and preventing mental illness, emphasizing early intervention
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Emil Kraepelin
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Authored a psychiatry textbook and a classification system of mental disorders which brought back the somatogenic perspective
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Psychogenic Perspective
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Bizzare interventions
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Masmer & Charcot
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Hypnotists
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Reason for deinstitutionalization
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Psychotrpoic medications
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Mode of treatment delivery
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Outpatient
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Prevention
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Promoting mental health
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Thomas Khun
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Paradigms guide all scientific inquiry and thought in a particular area
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Psychodynamic model
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Id, Ego, and Superego
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Cognitive model
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Focuses on thoughts and emotions
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ABC for Cognitive Therapy
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Activating Event, Beliefs, Consequences
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Behavior Genetics Studies
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Family Method, Twin Method, Adoption Studies
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