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What are the five traits that can be classified as an abnormal behaviour? |
Statistical Infrequency, Violation of Norms, Personal Distress, Disability/Dysfunction, Unexpectedness |
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Who was Phillipe Pinel? |
He pushed for humanitarian treatment of the mentally ill in asylums |
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Explain Broca's Aphasia |
Patients who would have a lesion on the left frontal lobe would not be able to speak but understood speech |
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Explain Wernicke's Aphasia |
Patients who had a lesion in the medial temporal lobe would be able to speak but they wouldn't make sense |
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Who was Phineas Gage? |
A guy who had a metal rod through his skull that completely changed his personality |
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What does comorbid mean? |
It is the presence of three or more disorders that exist simultaneously |
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What is a paradigm? |
A set of basic assumptions & perspectives that define how to conceptualize and study a subject and how to gather & interpret data Evidence-based |
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What are the 4 types of paradigms in understanding mental illness? |
Biological, cognitive-behavioural, psychoanalytic, humanistic |
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Explain the 'family method' of the biological paradigm |
It is a study of genetic predisposition on the genes shared by relatives to determine the frequency of the illness to patients |
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Explain genotype vs phenotype |
Genotype: Observable genetic qualities (blue eyes, black hair) Phenotype: Behavioural characteristics (schizophrenia) |
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Who is Franz Joseph Gall? |
He was a scientist who observed schoolkids to make a note about the shape of the skull relating to a person's behaviour Put together a theory called 'phrenology' |
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Explain the 'twin method' in the biological paradigm |
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