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30 Cards in this Set
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Paradigm |
A model or framework from which to view a phenomenon. |
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Trephining |
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 |
The belief that possession by demons or spirits explains abnormal behavior. |
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Dance Manias |
Episodes of apparent mass madness in which group of people dance in the streets |
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Dissociative identity Disorder |
Rare dissociative reaction in which relatively separate and distinct personalities develop within the same person |
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Organic View |
Belief that abnormal behavior is caused primarily by biological factors. |
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Dualism |
The belief that mind and body are separate and follow different laws |
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Lunatics |
Those whose mental problems were traceable to the phases of the Moon. |
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General Paresis |
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 |
A treatment for general paresis that involved infecting the patient with malaria to cause a high fever |
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Hysteria |
A condition roast includes emotional arousal and physical symptoms that seem to have no organic basis. |
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Mesmerism |
Closely related to the phenomenon of hypnosis and derived from the techniques of Anton Mesmer |
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Hypnosis |
A trance-like state induced through suggestion in Cooperative subjects |
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Anesthesia |
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 |
The whole of one side of the body becomes insensitive |
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Tics |
Involuntary muscular twitching, usually in the facial muscles |
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Abasia |
The inability to walk |
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Glove or sleeve anesthesia |
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 |
Hysterical patients, instead of being worried or depressed about their physical symptoms, appeared calm and indeed quite cheerful |
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Auto suggestion |
A process something like self hypnosis |
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Pavlovian conditioning |
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 |
Stimulus that is naturally capable of eliciting the unconditioned response |
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Unconditioned response |
Response that occurs naturally or innately to an unconditioned stimulus |
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Extinction |
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 |
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 |
A response that is elicited by a conditioned stimulus after repeated pairing with an unconditioned stimulus |
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Spontaneous recovery |
The brief reappearance of the conditioned response with occasional presentation of the conditioned stimulus |
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generalization |
Responding similarly to similar stimuli |
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Discrimination |
Narrowing the range of controlling stimuli for a response |
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Operant conditioning |
Type of learning in which the consequences of a response control its occurrence |