Famous Names Flashcards
(137 cards)
Alfred Adler
Founder of individual psychology, organ inferiority, inferiority complex
Mary Ainsworth
strange situation test, secure, anxious/avoidant, resistant/ambivalent (disorganised added later)
Mesmer
Mesmerism or animal magnetism, a form of hypnotic suggestion.
Gordon Alport
did work into reducing prejudice, contact between groups reduces prejudice
Ayllon and Azrin
Token economy
Cannon-Bard
1920s theory that emotions and physiology changes occur at the same time. Severed cats nerves to show that physical arousal does not have to occur before emotion.
Bateson
(Gregory Bateson): Therapist makes the patient intentionally engage in the unwanted behavior (called the paradoxical injunction) e.g. avoid a phobic object or perform a compulsive ritual.
James Braid
Scottish surgeon who coined hypnosis
Beard
(George Beard) 1879 coined the term neurasthenia, said it was exhaustion of the nerves due to urbanization
Barton
institutional neruosis, 1962
Battie
Wrote ‘Treatise on Madness’, 1758. Divided mental illness into ‘original’ and ‘consequential’
Bandura
Bobo doll, social learning, modelling theory (type of observational learning)
Aaron Beck
1960s - Cognitive therapy (CBT)
Benjamin Rush
Father of American Psychiatry. First classified phobia.
Eric Berne
1949, transactional analysis (NB videos on the Respect course, parent adult child) ‘Games people play’ parent adult child
Wilfred Bion
basic assumptions in group therapy. Bion, whenever a group gets derailed from its task, it deteriorates into one of three basic states: dependency, pairing, or fight-flight
Alfred Binet
1905 concept of mental age, Stanford Binet Test = 1st IQ test (now we use WAIS more).
IQ = mental age / chronological age x 100
Eugen Bleuler
coined schizophrenia in 1911, 1st to describe symptoms as positive or negative. 4 A’s –autism, ambivalence, affective incongruity and associations (loosening)
Brown and Harris
1978, social origins of depression
Brown and Rutter
1966 Camberwell Family Interview, expressed emotions in schizophrenia
Bowen
family SYSTEMS therapy, enmeshment, emotional triangles, therapist has minimal emotional attachment
Brigham
Social psychiatry
Broadbent
filter theory of attention. ‘People can only attend to one physical channel of information at a time’
Bowden
use of valproate in mania (1994)