PSYC 210 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Psychotherapy, Behaviour Therapy
13 Mar 2018
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Impairment/disability: atypical violates social norms, deviant harmful dysfunction. Working definition of abnormal: social, cognitive, emotional, or motivational dysfunction that is unexpected in its cultural context and associated with present distress and impairment, or increased risk of suffering, death, pain or impairment. Supernatural: etiology: witches/demons/planets etc, treatment: magic/prayers/trepanning/incarceration etc, trepanning drilling a hole in someone"s head to release evil spirits/forces. Psychological: plato tradition tension b/w reason and passion, treatment by rational discussion, plato"s etiology: mental anguish and distress could be linked to inaccurate reasoning and behavior as tension between passions/emotion and reason. Talk therapy to identify sources of mental dysfunction and re-develop the mind. Behavioral therapy to relearn maladaptive associations: humanist movement: rogers, maslow, perls, pinel emphasized moral treatment in asylums started idea and belief that people with mental illness could be treated and get better. Unconditioned stimulus (ucs): the neutral stimulus in classical conditioning. Unconditioned response (ucr): certain desired response that naturally elicited in classical conditioning.
