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Is psychology a field with a signle unified theory

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No

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Is the feild of psych wrighed down by the past history of it

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Yes

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What is the idea of the biological perspective

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The mind is effected by the body

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What is the biological perspective rooted in historically

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Hippocrates humors

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Which people argued that mental disorder has a PHYSICAL BASIS and should be treated as such

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Griesinger and Kraepelin

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What is demetia praecox

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Precursosr of schizophrenia

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What is manic-depressive psychosis

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Bipolar disorder

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What is the current root of the biological perspective

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Understanding the brain and nervous system

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Are genetics a determining factor with psych

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No they do play an IMPORTANT role but not determining

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What is a predisposition

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An increased likelyhood you will have a disease compared to someone without the GENE

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What is the concordance rate

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The percent of twins that both have the disease compared to when just one has it

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What triggers predispositions to turn into a disease

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GENES, ENCIRONMENT, BIOLOGY

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Where does mych of the bilological perspective research come from

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Neuroscience

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Is neuroscience limited

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Yes, and it’s scope and spplication gets put out of purportion

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What is the psychological perspective rooted in

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Talking cures

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Who used hypnosis to treat hysterical paralysis (psychological perspective)

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Jean-Martin Charcot and Joseph Breuer

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What was the aim of hypnosis

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Catharsis- bring unconscious emotiong up

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What perspective influenced freud into creating his psychodynamic model

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Psychological perspective (hypnosis)

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What is Freuds psychodynamic perspective based on

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The internal dynamics of the unconscious mind

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What does Freuds model believe causes illness

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UNCONSCIOUS out of BALANCE, CHILDHOOD

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What is the Id

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Always there, CHILDREN, pleasure, UNCONSCIOUS

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What is the ego

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Doesn’t want to feel bad, makes DECIOUSIONS

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What is the superego

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Develops, consciousness

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What is freuds model of development

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oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital

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What is labedal
Sexual energy burried in unconsciousness
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Who created the Neo-freudian model
Jung's ANALYTIC psychology, Adler's INDIVIDUAL psycholgy, HORNEY and SULLIVAN
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What was the point is Jung's analytic psychology
Self-awareness and self-direction
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What was the point in Adlers individual psych
Inferiority complex, birth order
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What was the point in Horney and Sullivan
Social contexts and objected to the sexism of freuds model
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Why are psychodynamic models not liked
SEXISM, very little empirical SCIENCE, no evdience for an UNCONSCIOUS
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What do learning perscpective models focus on
Classical and operant learning
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What is classical learning
Learning by association
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What is operant learning
Learning by consequences
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What persceptive is the social-cognitive theory in
The learning perspective
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What is the social-cognitive theory
Learning from observing others
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Why is the learning perspective used
Changing BEHAVIOR, rooted in SCIENCE
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What is the focus of the humanistic model
Value of being human, self0actualization
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Does science support the humanistic perspective descriptive models or personhood
No
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What is the most common approach to therapy
Humanistic
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What is the focus on the cognitive perspective
How we view reality based on information, memories, and though processes
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Which perspective believes that illness is a result of maladaptive thought patterns
Cognitive perspective
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What is Alber Ellis's ABC model
ACTIVATING events react with BELIEGS to bring about responses to CONSEQUENCES
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What does Aaron Beck believe
Depression is a result of sognitive errors
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What is the cognitive error of selective abstraction
Focusing on flaws
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What is the cognitive error of overgeneralization
Making opion from a few bad experiences
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What is the cognitive error of madnification
Blowing things out of proportion
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What is the cognitive error of absolutist thinking
Black and white thinking
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What is the belief of the sociocultural perspective
Mental illness is from the failures of societies is a social CONSTRUCT
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Is there regional, ethnic and national variations in incidence of mental illness
Yes, SES and cultural biases
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What can be both a cause and consequence of mental illness
SES
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What is the downward drigt hypothesis
The less money you have the more mental illness you have
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Who wrote the Myth of Mental Illness and why
Thomas Szasz, classification is an attempt by society to CONTROL those who are DIFFERENT
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What are some terms from the Myth of Mental ILlness
INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT, MEDICAL MODEL, PROBLEMS IN LIVING
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Why is the medical model problematic
You can't fix mental health like you do with cancer, patients are passive and it puts the doctor in charge
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What is the biopsychosocial perspective
Mental illness is rooted in BIOLOGICAL, PSYCHOLOGICAL and SOCIOCULTURAL causes
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What is the most common perspective
Biopsychosocial
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What is the interactionist perspective
Biopsychosocial perspective
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What is the diathesis-stress model
Enviromental stressors can TRIGGER biological bulnerabilities, CAUSING mental illness
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What should you know about Psychiatrists (MD)
Prescribe
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What should you know about Psychologists
There is a more RESEARCH based (PhD), and PRACTICE based (PsyD)
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What should you know about Clinical social workers (MSW)
They work in schools, justices system, out patient
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What degrees do counselors have
MA, MS, MSW
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What should you know about therapists
URREGULATED term, what are their CREDINTIALS, HIPPA

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