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Psychology 101 with Mae at Arizona State University - Tempe
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By: sarah edelman
Created: 2010-05-04
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Thomas Szasz
believes that the medical model is outdated. Says that the medical model is just an analogy. You need DIAGNOSIS, ETIOLOGY, and PROGNOSIS for the treatment and study of abnormal psychology.
Medical Model
the term (cited by psychiatrist Ronald D. Laing in his The Politics of the Family and Other Essays) for the "set of procedures in which all doctors are trained." This set includes complaint, history, examination, ancillary tests if needed, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis with and without treatment.
It aims to find medical treatments for diagnosed symptoms and syndromes and treats the human body as a very complex mechanism
what is the medical models approach?
Diagnosis
distinguishing one illness from another
prognosis
forecast about the probability of an illness
etiology
refers to the apparent causation and development history of an illness
criteria for a mental disorder
Devience, madadaptive behavior, personal distress
Deviance means
Outside of the norm, this alone wont change a person
madadaptive behvaior means
interferes with functioning, restricting from school, job and relationships
personal distress means
causes psyical danger to anyone and or patients personal distress
DSM IV and axis
I. clincal sydroms
II. personality disorders
III. medical conditions
IV. psychological problems
V. global assessment of funtioning
clinical sydroms are
he diagnosis of disorders are made on AXES 1 and 2
personality disorders are
used to list long running personaility disorders or mental retardation
medical conditions means
used to list psysical disorders
psychological problems
notations reguarding the types of stress experienced by the individual in the past year
global assessment of functioning is
estimates an individuals current level of adaptive functioning and of the individuals highest level of functioning in the past year
Anxiety disorders
class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive appregension and anxiety
generalized anxiety disorders
marked by a chronic, high level of anxiety that is not tied to any specific threat
phobic disorder
marked by a persistant and irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger
panic disorder
characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occurs suddenly and unexpectedly
agoraphobia
fear of going out into public or open spaces
obsessive compulsive diroder
is marked by persistent and uncontrollable intrusion of unwanted thought (obsessions) and urges to engage in sensless rituals (compulsions)
posttraumatic stress disorder
envolves enduring psychological disturbance attributed to the experience of a major traumatic event.
Etiology of axiety disorders
- genetics
- neurochemicals (common with seratonin)
- classical and operant conditioning
- cognitive: though processes; interpretation differences
- personality: neuroticism
- stress
somatoform disorders
physical ailments that cannot be fully explained by organic conditions and are largely due to psychological factors
physical ailments with no organic base
what is a somatoform disorder?
somatization disorder
history of diverse psysical complaints with no phsyical factors
conversion disorder
those who think they paralysis of any body part without any apparent organic basis
hypochondrias
excessive preoccupation with becoming ill, usually of terminal illness
personality- etiology of somatoform disorders
- tend to be neurotic, and have a histrionic personality characteristics and insecure attachments styles
cognitive - etiology of somatoform disorders
- tend to draw catastrophic conclusions about minor bodily complaints
sick role- etiology of somatoform disorders
people who grow fond of the role associated with being sick
dissociative disorders
class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their conciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identiy
dissociative amnesia
is a sudden loss of memory for important personal information that is too extensive to be due to normal forgetting
disccociative fugue
when people lose their memory for their entire lives along with their sense of personal identity. forget name, family, work, but remember things not related to their identity (surgeon or driving)
dissociative identity disorder
invloves the coexistence in one person of two or more larely completely, and usually very different personalities. AKA MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER
etiology of dissociative disorders
-stress
-early childhood drama
mood disorders
a class of disorders marked my emotional disturbances of varied kinds that may spilll over to disrupt phsical, perceptual, social and though processes
major depressive disorder
people show persistent feelings of safness and despair and loss of interest in precious sources of pleasure
bipolar disorder
is characterized by the experience of one or more manic episodes as well as peiods of depression
etiology of mood disorders
neaurotransmittors- decline in norapinephrine and seratonin
genetics: concordanence
cognitive: repetive negative thoughts and negative self talk
social skills: poor inner social skills are linked to mood disorders
stress: onset of these disorders cause stress
decline in norapinephrine and serotonin s etiology of what disorder?
mood disorder
schizophrenia disorders
disruptive, disturbing thoughts
delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and deterioration of adaptive behavior is symtoms of what?
scizophrenia
paranoid schizophrenia
delusions, prosecution or gandeur
disordered schizophrenia
disturbed emotions
catatonic disorder
motor movement disturbances that range from strict immobility to excessive activity
undifferentiated schizophrenia
ombination of symptoms that are not included in the above subtypes
new proposed schizophrenia classification
classify people as negative and positive schizophrenia
positive schizophrenia means
adding something
etiology of schizophrenia is..
genetics: 46 percent chance if both parents have it, 17 if one has it
neurochemicals: excessive dopamine activity
expresses emotions enviroment: how the family expresses emoitions and communicate. parents who are highly critical and overly protected have a higher chance of their children being schizo
what disorder is associated with high levels of dopamine?
schizophrenia
when does one usually get schizo.? (age)
youn stressfull times of life
insanity defense (law)
erson cannot be held responsible for their reactions if they are mentally ill.. if they are agreed insane, they will be thrown in a hospital instead of prison for their term
involuntary commitment (law)
if people become a threat to people and themselves
deinsitutionalization
to provide treatment and let the person out
culture bound disorders
abnormal syndroms found in only a few culture groups
etiology of eating disorders
genetics, personality traits, culture, role of the family, cognitive
comorbidity
the coexistence of two or more disorders
milgrim
studies the tendencies to obey authority figures
asch
created a conformity experiment"straight line". found that his subjects varied considerably in their tendencies to confrom
hendrick
came up with the love style categories
walster
oposed the idea that romantic relationships are characterized by two kinds of love: passionate and comaptionate
sternberg
came up with the triangular method to love: intimacy, passion and commitment
lake wobegon effects
tendenccy to think we are better then what we really are.
egocentric bias
inglated self evalutations
assumed consensus effect
tendency to believe people agree with us too much, inflated similarity belief
halo effect
tendency that if there are one or two good or bad traits someone has, then they all sway the way their two qualitys that you know of
eexpectancy effects
selective attention, interpretation and memory
self help tapes and being sane in insane places is a part of what type of effects?
expectancy effects
spotlight effects
inflated beliefs of being the center of attention, but people are really much busier with their own impression managment of themselves
context effects
the context of the room effects the way a person behaves and feels.
attractive room vs. ugly room is an example of
context effect
priming effects
make something prime, something come into mind
unwanted thoughts
*white bear
applications, break ups, addictions, injustices
sterotype
cognitive belief that someone has a certain type of personality trait solely because of their group membership
prejudice effect
emotion in particular of like or dislike based solely on group membership
discrimination
behavior of treating someone differently solely beccuase of group memb.
most common stereotypes visible to eyes are
gender, age, race
individualism
nvolves putting personal goals ahead of group goals and defending one's identity in terms of personal attributes rather than group memberships
collectivism
volves putting group goals ahead of personal goals and defending ones identity in terms of group one belongs
attitude theories
classical conditioning, observant conditioning, and observational learning
the source of persuasion is
peroson who sends a communicationrec
the recievor of persuasion
whom the message is sent
message factors
is the information transmitted by the sourve and the channel is the medium through which the message is sent
four key factors in INTERPERSONAL ATTRACTION
proximity, phsyical attractiveness, similarity, and reciprocity
what does reciprocity mean
liking those who show that they like you
matching hypothesis
proposed that males and females of approximately equal physical attracticness are likely to select eachother as partners
theory of romantic love
WALSTER
the theory of walster romantic love contains
ssions, and compantionate
triangular theory of love relationships
intimicy, comimitment, passion
fatuous love
no intamacy
companioate love
have intimacy and commitment but no passion
consequent love
all three factors in a relationship
eros
very passinate, based on phsyical feelings, relationships develop very suddenly
ludus
approach a relationship like a game: playful teasing not very serious.
storge
approach a relationship from being friends first
pragma
chose their mates for a pragmatic situation (future refrences)
mania
drama, love to hate
gape
selfless, giving, thinking of the other person before yourself
males have higher what type of love?
ludus
women have what type of love
oage and pragma
conformity experiment
conform along with a group = 35 percent
mass murderes
white, middle age, kills many in shot, and want to die. feel remorse in prison
serial killers
going down hill, white middle class love to kill great need for power and control rarely use a hun
obedience study was performed by?
milgrim
what was the obedience study for
see how well people follow orders
social loafing
eople dont expend more effort when its up to them. slacking
deindividuation
expose more deviant behavior when theyre in a group rather than solo
mardi graw is an example of
Deindividuation
bystnader effect
the more bystnaders around, the less likely you help
groupthink
when members of a cohesive group emphasixr concurrence at the expense of critical thinking in arriving at a decision
lowball technique
involves getting someone to commit an attractive propostions before its hidden costs are revealed
foot in door
getting people to agreee to a small request to increase the changees that they will agree to a large request later
About this deck
By: sarah edelman
Created: 2010-05-04
Size: 114 flashcards
Views: 288
Created: 2010-05-04
Size: 114 flashcards
Views: 288
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