Lobotomies - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

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● DSM definition of mental disorder/ illness ○ A mental disorder is a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. ○ Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities ● Major historical landmarks/ key...

Psy340 Final Exam SDSU Armor || All Questions & Answers (Graded A+) Psy340 Final Exam SDSU Armor || All Questions & Answers (Graded A+) What is the hypothesized function the amygdala? - ANSWER - Links perceptions and thoughts about the world to their emotional meaning (anger and fear) What is the role of the frontal lobe in the development and expression of personality? - ANSWER - (1) The left frontal = more active when a person wants to approach something pleasant (active = emotional s...

NSC 1306 Final Exam Questions and Answers Clinical - Answer-pertaining to treatment Comparative approach - Answer-The study of biological processes by comparing different species Confounding variable - Answer-A factor other than the factor being studied that might produce an effect Coolidge effect - Answer-the revival of sexual arousal caused by the presence of a novel partner Critical thinking - Answer-process of recognizing the weakness of existing ideas and the evidence on whic...

Exam 1 NRSC, Exam Review Questions and answers, rated A+ C - -_______ believed that the heart was the center of intellect and that the brain was a radiator for cooling blood overheated by the seething heart. a. Hippocrates b. Socrates c. Aristotle d. Galen e. Descartes C - -_______ neuroscience studies how different neural circuits analyze sensory information, form perceptions of the external world, make decisions, and execute movements a. Molecular b. Cellular c. Systems d. Behav...

Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence" - ️️Paul Meehl's book; The major predicate: any judgement or decision requires a means of combining information in order to make a choice. The minor predicate: clinical diagnosis is one type of judgement. The essence of Meehl's argument was that an objective, algorithmic approach to combining information is superior to a subjective one. Meehl's contention was that clinical diagnosis would be far mor...

GRE Psychology- Personality and Abnormal Psychology popular meanings of personality generally fall into one of two categories: - >>the social skills and the salient impression one leaves on others who defined physical and biological variables that he related to human behaviors and characterized people by body type, relating body type to personality type - >>William Sheldon Who used the terms endomorphy (soft and spherical) mesomorphs (hard muscular and rectangular) and ectom...

There is no such thing as: correct answers a. a valid argument that is sound b. a sound argument that is not valid* c. a sound argument that is also valid d. a valid argument that is also sound The conclusion of a sound argument: correct answers a. is true* b. is false c. might be true but might also be false d. will always be relevant to the philosophical question in the discussion A theory of well-being/value is an objective theory if and only if it claims: correct answers a. to ...

What is abnormal psychology concerned with? - correct answer understanding the nature, causes and treatment of mental disorders What is family aggregation - correct answer whether a disorder runs in families 7 indicators of abnormailty - correct answer 1. subjective distress 2. maladaptiveness 3. statistical delivery 4. violation of the standards of society...

Pioneered by / Year - In 1935, pioneered by a Portuguese physician, Egas Puniz, who eventually won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. What is it? - Lobotomy is a form of surgery that cuts open the skull, and then uses a device that resembles an ice pick to cut through neural fibers in the brain. Implications in the US? - Championed in the US, particularly within the VA system, by a neurologist named Dr. Walter Freeman. Frequently lobotomized patients? - Appx 2000 American vets wer...