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Abnormal Psychology |
The scientific study of an abnormal behavior in an effort to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. |
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Norms |
A society's stated and unstated rules for proper conduct. |
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Culture |
A people's common history, values, institutions, habits, skills, technology, and arts. |
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Trephination |
An ancient operation in which a tone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior. |
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Humors |
According to the Greeks and Romans, bodily chemicals that influence mental and physical functioning. |
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Asylum |
A type of institution that first became popular in the sixteenth century to provide care for persona with mental disorders. Most became virtual prisons. |
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Moral Treatment |
A nineteenth-century approach to treating people with mental dysfunction that emphasized moral guidance and humane and respectful treatment. |
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State Hospitals |
State-run public mental institutions in the United States. |
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Somatogenic Perspective |
The view that abnormal psychological functioning has physical causes. |
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Psychogentic Perspective |
The view that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological. |
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Psychoanalysis |
Either the theory or the treatment of abnormal functioning that emphasizes unconscious psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology. |
