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The scientific study of abnormal behavior in order to describe, predict, explain and change abnormal patterns of functioning.
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Abnormal Psychology
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A society's stated and unstated rules for proper conduct.
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Norms
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A people's common history, values, isnstitutions, habits, skills, technology and arts
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Culture
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A procedure designed to help change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior.
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Treatment
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An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior.
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trephination
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The practice in early societies of treating abnormality by coaxing evil spirits to leave the person's body.
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exorcism
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According to Greek and Roman physicians, bodily chemicals that influence mental and physical functioning.
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Humors
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A type of institution that first became popular in the sixteenth century to provide care for persons with mental disorders. Most became virtual prisons.
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Asylum
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A nineteenth century approach to treating people with mental dysfunctions that emphasized moral guidance and humane and respectful treatment.
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Moral Treatment
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State run public mental institutions in the US
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State hospitals
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The view that abnormal psychological functioning has physical causes.
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Somatogenic Perspective
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The view that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological.
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Psychogenic Perspective
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Either the theory or the treatment of abnormal mental functioning that emphasizes unconscious psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology.
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Psychoanalysis
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Drugs that mainly affect the brain and reduce many symptoms of mental dysfunctioning.
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Psychotropic medications
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The practice begun in the 1960's of relaeasing hundreds of thousands of patients from public mental hospitals.
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Deinstitutionalization
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Interventions aimed at deterring mental disorders before they can develop.
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Prevention
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The study and enhancement of positive feelings, traits and abilities.
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A system of health care coverage in which the insurance company largely controls the nature, scope and cost of medical or psychological services.
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A general understanding of the nature, causes and treatments of abnormal psychological functioning in the form of laws or principles.
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Nomothetic Understanding
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The process of systematically gathering and evaluating information through careful observations to gain an understanding of a phenomenon.
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Scientific Method
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A detailed account of a person's life and psychological problems.
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Case Study
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A research procedure used to determine how much events or characteristics very along with each other.
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Correlational Method
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A study that measures the incidence and prevelance of a disorder in a given time.
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Prevelance
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A study that observes the same subjects on many occasions over a long period of time.
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Longitudinal Study
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A research procedure in which a variable is manipulated and the effect of the manipulation is observed.
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Experiment
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The variable in an experiment that is manipulated to determine whether it has an effect on another variable.
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Independent variable
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The variable in an experiment that is expected to change as the independent variable is manipulated.
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Dependent variable
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In an experiment a group of subjects who are not exposed to the independent variable.
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Control Group
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In an experiment the subjects who are exposed to the independent variable under investigation.
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Experimental Group
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A selection procedure that ensures that subjects are randomly placed either in the control group or in the experimental group.
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Random Assignment
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An experiment in which subjects do not know whether they are in the experimental or control condition.
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Blind design
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An experiment which makes use of control and experimental groups that already exist in the world at large.
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Quasi experiment
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An experiment in which nature, rather than an experimenter manipulates an independent variable.
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Natural experiment
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A research method in which the experimenter produces abnormal like behavior in laboratory subjects and then studies the subjects.
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Analogue experiment
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An experiment which measures a single subject both before and after the manipulation of an independent variable.
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Single subject experiment
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