Chapter 2

Front 1

Asylums

Back 1

Historically, institutions for the care of the mentally ill.

Front 2

Behavioral Perpective

Back 2

A theoretical viewpoint organized around the theme that learning is central to determening human behavior.

Front 3

Behaviorism

Back 3

School of psychology that fomerly restricted itsel primaraly to the study of overt behavior.

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Catharsis

Back 4

Discharge of emotional tension associated with something such as talking about past trauma

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Classical Conditioning

Back 5

A basic form of learning in which a neutal stimulus is paired repeatedtly with an unconditioned stimulus (US) that naturally elicits an unconditional response (UR). After repeated pairings, the natural stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS) that elicts a conditioned response (CR).

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Deinstitutionalization

Back 6

Movement to close mental hospitals and treat people with severe mental disorders in the comunity

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Dream Analysis

Back 7

Method involving the reccording , description and interpertation of a person's dream.

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Exorcism

Back 8

Religiously inspired treatment procedure desinged to drive out evil spirits from a possed person

Front 9

Free Association

Back 9

Method for probing the unconsious by having patients talk freely about themselves thier feelings and thier motives.

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Insanity

Back 10

legal term for the mental disorders implying lack of responsibility for one's actions and inability to manage one's affairs.

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Lycanthropy

Back 11

Delusions of being a wolf

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Mad Madness

Back 12

Historically, widespread occurrence of group behavior disorder that were apparently cases of hysteria.

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Mental Hygene Movement

Back 13

Movement that advocated a method of treatment focused almost exclusively on the physical well-being of hospitalized mental patients.

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Mesmerism

Back 14

Theories of "Animal Magnestism" (hynopsis) formulated by Anton Mesmer

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Moral Management

Back 15

Wide-ranging methods of treatment that focuses on a patient's social, individual and occupational needs.

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Nancy school

Back 16

group of physicians in the 19th century Europe who accepted the view that hysteria was a sort of self hypnosis

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Operant Condtioning

Back 17

From of learning in which a particular response is reinforced, it becomes more likely to be repeated on similar occassions.

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Psychoanalysis

Back 18

Methods used by Freud to treat patients.

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Psychoanlytic Perspective

Back 19

Theory if Psychopathology based on modification and revisions of Freuds theories.

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Saint Vitus' Dance

Back 20

Name given to the dancing mani (and mass hysteria) that spread from Italy to Germany and the rest of Europe.

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Tarantism

Back 21

Dacing Mania that occured in Italy during the 13th century.

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Unconsious

Back 22

In Psychoanalytic theory, a major portion of the mind, which consist of a hidden mass of instincts, impulses and memories and it is not easily available to consious aweareness yet plays an important role in behavior.