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Psychiatry and Modern Neuro
Neuro, psych and Neuro, Dr. Mark
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Graduate
12/13/2010

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Biopsychosocial
Definition
  • dr. Engel
  • approach the understanding of psychiatric disorders from psychosocial perspectives and biomedical perspectives
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Prefrontal Cortex
Definition
  • thinking part of the brain - judgment, ability to make a decision of one behavior over another
  • located near where old memories about emotion are stored and area that controls movement
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Mind
Definition
  • describes a complex integrated reesponse to issues that challenge us
  • has a psychological and biological component
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Id
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  • primitive part of our personality that governs impulses, handled aggression, promoted sexual drive
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Ego
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  • intellectual part of the brain/mind
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Superego
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  • sense of morals, our conscience
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Persona
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  • Carl jung
  • a mask, covering what is really going on inside your mind
  • not what you may show on the exterior
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Social Learning Theory
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  • showed behavior was determined by external environmental factors like reward and punishment
  • Pavlov = classical conditioning
  • John Watson = albert + rat...showed childhood phobias may be conditioned responses
  • BF Skinner - operant conditioning...personality characteristics are behaviors that are related to stimuli people face everyday...if you want to strengthen a behavior reward it and vv.
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Reinforcement
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  • Positive Reinforcement - will inc. likelihood that they continue what we want them to do
  • Negaive - prsn likes the attention they recieve by not doing what they were told
  • Variable - certain behavior occurs not consistently but it keeps occuring ex. gambling
  • Observational - watching how someone else acts affects your behavior ex. violent tv = violent kid
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Hallucination
Definition
false sensory experience or mistakes in perception
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basal ganglia
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helps control motor behavior
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wenickes
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auditory association area - enables us to understand what we have heard
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broca's

 

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areas of speech - speech fluency, not stammering
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reticular activating system
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diffuse are of cingulate gyrus, hypothalamus, hippocampus, prefrontal cortex, temporal cortex, parietal, and occipital lobes

-where an attention deficit disorder occurs

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