PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 37: Startle Response, Specific Phobia, Trepanning
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Personality scales: objective measures: standard sets of questions that are scored using an agreed-on scoring key. Projective tests: present subjects with ambiguous stimuli and ask for some. Projects inner needs, feelings, and ways of viewing the world onto the stimulus. Interpretations are based on what the responses seem to symbolize. Participant writes a story about what is happening in the picture. The expectations of the culture in which a person lives. The expectations of the person"s culture of origin: general assumptions about human nature o. Statistical deviation from the norm: harmfulness, suffering, and impairment. Abnormal behavior: behavior that is personally distressing, dysfunctions, and/or so. Culturally deviant that other people judge it to be inappropriate or maladaptive. Trephination: chiseling a hole in the skull to allow evil spirits to escape (treatment) Witchcraft: hippocrates (5th century bc): mental illnesses are just like physical disorders o. Freudian psychoanalysis (early 1900s): beginning of psychological interpretations of disordered behavior.
