CLP 4143 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Mental Disorder, General Paresis Of The Insane
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Exam 1 study guide: (remember just a guide: introduction to abnormal behavior: contemporary and historical perspectives. Idea of possession dominated thinking about abnormal behavior. Ancient practice of cutting holes in the skull. Believed that the brain was the central organ of intellectual activity and that mental disorders were due to brain pathology. Classified all mental disorders into three general categories mania, melancholia, and phrenitis (brain fever). Four humors: essential fluids of the body blood, phlegm, bile, and black bile. The fluids combined in different proportions within different individuals, and a person"s temperament was determined by which of the humors was dominant. Each of them had their own personality attributes. What was the approach towards abnormal behavior during the middle ages: very unscientific, supernatural explanations, management of mental illness left to clergy, mass madness, witchcraft. Mass madness is the widespread occurrence of group behavior disorders that were apparently cases of hysteria and emerged toward the end of the middle ages.
