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Abnormal Psychology
Ch. 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abnormal Psychology | The scientific study of mental disorders and their treatment |
| 2 categories of Therapy | Biomedical & Psychological |
| 3 Types of Biomedical | 1. Drug Therapy 2. Shock Therapy 3. Psychosurgery |
| Biomedical Therapy | uses drugs to treat disorder |
| 4 types of Psychotherapy | 1. Psychoanalytic 2. Humanistic 3. Behavorial 4. Cognitive |
| Major medications | Lithium, antidepressants, antianxiety, antipsychotic |
| 3 antidepressants | MAO, tricyclics, SSRIs |
| 2 antipsychotic drugs | Traditonal & New Generation |
| most popular psychosurgery | LOBOTOMY- connections to frontal lobes are removed |
| 2 types of psychotherapy | INSIGHT & ACTION |
| INSIGHT | psychoanalytic & humanistic, stress thinking of person |
| ACTION | behavorial and cognitive, stress action of person |
| Humanistic Theory | ROger's CLient Centered Therapy |
| Behavorial THerapy | uses classical and operant conditioning |
| 3 counterconditioning exposer therapy | systemati desensitiztion, virtual reality, and flooding |
| Cognitive THerapy- 2 people | Ellis- rational emotive therapy and BEck's cognitive therapy |
| 3 anxiety disorders | agoraphobia, panic disorders, OCD |
| Rosenhan study | went to hospitals and fake a disorder |
| medical school syndrome | thinking you have a disorder when really you dont |
| most common mood disorder | major depressive disorder |
| earliest biomedical treatment | trephining- stone tool that cut away at a person's skull |
| most frequently used biomedical treatment | drug therapy |
| ex. of antianxiety drugs | valium and xanax |
| antipsychotic drugs | abilify, thorazine |