Psychology Final Exam Flashcards
Who wrote “Man’s Search for Meaning.”?
Victor Frankel
Spirituality looks like what in the brain?
What is self-transcendence look like? What does it not look like?
Being spiritual. If you have less than it, then you are just more a natural man. I live the commandments because it is the best way to liv
What about low versus high scorers with the 5HT1A?
Being non-spiritual vs. spiritual.
What did they find when they studied nuns?
Activation of the caudate nucleus when they actively remembered spiritual experiences.
How much is religiosity is heritable?
50 percent.
I’m feeling very spiritual, returned missionaries, what parts of the brain?
Woking memory and pleasure center of the brain activated.
How did they explain mental illness back then?
Who biblically, and historically had mental disorders?
Evil spirit. They would probably be called schizophrenia.
Saul trying to kill David. Bipolar illness.
Jezebel and Herod: psychopaths.
Lincoln: Depression
Van Gogh: Bipolar
William Stewart Halstead: Did surgeries. Addicted to heroin.
What is psychopathology?
Study of abnormal thoughts, feelings and behaviors.
What is abnormal behavior?
Why did Robin Willimas kill himself?
Deviance.
Discomfort and distress.
Destructive to functioning.
Had Parkinson’s. Did not want his family to have to take care of him.
