Abnormal Psychology | Ch 1. Introduction and Historical Overview

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  1. 5. The ritualistic casting out of evil spirits.
  2. 8. In Freud's theory, the part of the personality that acts as the conscience society's society's moral standards as learned from parents and teachers.
  3. 9. A person's responses to his or her analyst that seem to reflect attitudes and ways of behaving toward important people in the person's past.
  4. 13. In Freud's theory, the predominantly conscious part of the personality, responsible for decision-making and for dealing with reality.
  5. 17. A therapeutic regimen whereby mentally ill patients were released from their restraints and were treated with compassion and dignity rather than with contempt and denigration.
  6. 18. An individual who has earned a Ph.D. degree or a PsyD. degree and whose training has included an internship in a hospital or clinic.
  7. 19. A state of unawareness without sensation or thought; in Freud's theory, the part of the personality, in particular, the id impulses or energy, of which the ego is unaware.
  8. 21. the destructive beliefs and attitudes held by a society about groups considered different in some manner, such as people with mental illness.
  9. 23. The DSM defines this as a clinically significant behavior or psychological syndrome or pattern. The definition includes a number of key features, including distress, disability, or impaired functioning, violation of social norms, and dysfunction.
  10. 24. The strengthening os a tendency to exhibit desired behavior by rewarding responses in that situation with the removal of an aversive stimulus.
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  1. 1. A mental health professional who holds a master of social work (M.S.W) degree.
  2. 2. An approach originally associated with John B. Watson, who proposed focus on observable behavior rather than on consciousness or mental functioning.
  3. 3. A basic form of learning, sometimes referred to as Pavlovian conditioning, in which a neutral stimulus is repeatedly paired with another stimulus (called the unconditioned stimulus, UCS) that naturally elicits a certain desired response (called the unconditioned response, UCR). After repeated trials, the neural stimulus becomes a conditioned stimulus (CS) and evokes the same or a similar response, now called the conditioned response (CR).
  4. 4. In Freud's theory, reality-distorting strategies unconsciously adopted to protect the ego from anxiety.
  5. 6. A nurse who receives specialized training in mental illness. An advanced practice psychiatric nurse may prescribe ppsychiatric medications.
  6. 7. A primarily verbal means of helping troubled individuals change their thoughts, feelings, and behavior to reduce distress and to achieve greater life satisfaction.
  7. 10. The field concerned with the nature, development, and treatment of psychological disorders.
  8. 11. Refuges established in western Europe in the 15th century to confine and provide for people with mental illness; forerunners of the mental hospital.
  9. 12. A principle of learning that holds that behavior is acquired by virtue of its consequences.
  10. 13. The elimination of a classically conditioned response by the omission of the unconditioned stimulus. In operant conditioning, the elimination of behavior by the omission of reinforcement.
  11. 14. The strengthening of a tendency to exhibit desired behavior by rewarding responses in that situation with a desired reward.
  12. 15. The acquisition or elimination of a response as a function of the environmental contingencies of reinforcemnt and punishment.
  13. 16. Primarily the therapy procedures pioneered by Freud, entailing free association, dream analysis, and working through transference. The term can also refer to the numerous variations of basic Freudian therapy.
  14. 20. A psychician (M.D) who completes medical training and also specialized postdoctoral training, called residency, in the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychological disorders.
  15. 22. Learning by observing and imitating the behavior of others or teaching by demonstration and providing opportunities for initiation.