Ch. 2 Ab Psych

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Paradigm

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A model or framework from which to view a phenomenon.

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Trephining

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Tools, probably of stone, were used to make a sizable hole in the skull, possibly with the intent of permitting entrapped demons to escape.

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Demonology

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The belief that possession by demons or spirits explains abnormal behavior.

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Dance Manias

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Episodes of apparent mass madness in which group of people dance in the streets

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Dissociative identity Disorder

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Rare dissociative reaction in which relatively separate and distinct personalities develop within the same person

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Organic View

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Belief that abnormal behavior is caused primarily by biological factors.

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Dualism

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The belief that mind and body are separate and follow different laws

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Lunatics

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Those whose mental problems were traceable to the phases of the Moon.

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General Paresis

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Severe disorder characterized by various mental symptoms as well as bodily paralyses; caused by a syphilitic infection of the brain

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Malarial fever therapy

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A treatment for general paresis that involved infecting the patient with malaria to cause a high fever

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Hysteria

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A condition roast includes emotional arousal and physical symptoms that seem to have no organic basis.

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Mesmerism

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Closely related to the phenomenon of hypnosis and derived from the techniques of Anton Mesmer

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Hypnosis

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A trance-like state induced through suggestion in Cooperative subjects

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Anesthesia

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A lack of ordinary sensation in the skin when the body surface becomes in sensitive to touch, pain, or heat

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Hemianesthesia

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The whole of one side of the body becomes insensitive

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Tics

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Involuntary muscular twitching, usually in the facial muscles

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Abasia

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The inability to walk

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Glove or sleeve anesthesia

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The insensitive area of the hand or arm correspond with that which would be covered by a glove or sleeve.

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La Belle indifference

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Hysterical patients, instead of being worried or depressed about their physical symptoms, appeared calm and indeed quite cheerful

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Auto suggestion

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A process something like self hypnosis

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Pavlovian conditioning

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Learning process whereby a formerly neutral stimulus comes to elicit a response as a result of pairing with an unconditioned stimulus

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Unconditioned stimulus

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Stimulus that is naturally capable of eliciting the unconditioned response

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Unconditioned response

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Response that occurs naturally or innately to an unconditioned stimulus

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Extinction

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Repeated presentation of the conditioned stimulus without the unconditioned stimulus where the frequency and strength of conditioned responses tend to decrease, eventually to

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Conditioned stimulus

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And originally neutral stimulus that becomes capable of eliciting a conditioned response after repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus

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Conditioned response

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A response that is elicited by a conditioned stimulus after repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus

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Spontaneous recovery

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The brief reappearance of the conditioned response with occasional presentation of the conditioned stimulus

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generalization

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Responding similarly to similar stimuli

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Discrimination

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Narrowing the range of controlling stimuli for a response

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Operant conditioning

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Type of learning in which the consequences of a response control its occurrence