PSYC 4008 Chapter : Final Exam Study Guide
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History of psych final exam study guide: malarial therapy, invented by jauregg, used for general paresis of the insane (gpi) Shock therapy: shock is a generic term (not necessarily ect, covers a wide range of procedures. Lobotomy: moniz (first and got nobel prize) and freeman (more important in promoting lobotomy, know the basics of trans orbital lobotomy, could be done outside of the surgery room in an office or clinic. Modernization of psychopharmacology began in the 1950s: antihistamines led to antipsychotics, thorazine most significant of the new drugs. Formal founding of clinical psychology is not what you"d think: lighter witmer is credited with creating clinical psychology as an independent discipline, was originally just school psychology. Orthogenics: means evolution in a straight line , the course of evolution is fixed; it"s teleological, selection unimportant, associated with neo-lamarckism , inheritance of acquired characteristics, linear progress, coined and used by witmer.
