Title TOPRANK ABPSYCH Manual (Part 1).pdf ✅

TOP RANK – ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY century, religious and lay authorities supported these popular superstitions and society as a whole began to believe more strongly in the existence and power of demons and witches. Stress and Melancholy - An equally strong opinion, even during this period, reflected the enlightened view that insanity was a natural phenomenon, caused by mental or emotional stress, and that it was curable. Treatments for Possession- exorcisms, confinement, beatings, and other forms of torture, hanging people over a pit full of poisonous snakes, dunkings in ice-cold water. Mass Hysteria- large scale outbreaks of bizarre behavior. Mass hysteria may simply demonstrate the phenomenon of emotion contagion, in which the experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us. The Moon and The Stars- the movements of the moon and stars had profound effects on people’s psychological functioning. The Biological Tradition: Hippocrates and Galen – “Hippocratic Corpus”, written between 450 and 350 b.c. in which they suggested that psychological disorders could be treated like any other disease. Humoral Theory of Disorders - Hippocrates assumed that normal brain functioning was related to four bodily fluids or humors: blood, black bile, yellow bile, and phlegm Syphilis– Behavioral and cognitive symptoms of what we now know as advanced syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by a bacterial microorganism entering the brain. John P. Gray- The champion of the biological tradition in the United States was the most influential American psychiatrist of the time. Developments of Biological Treatments Insulin Shock Therapy - insulin was occasionally given to stimulate appetite in psychotic patients who were not eating, but it also seemed to calm them down. Electroconvulsive Therapy - Benjamin Franklin made numerous discoveries during his life with which we are familiar, but most people don’t know that he discovered accidentally, and then

TOP RANK – ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY - contains the genetic instruction of organisms. - Double-Stranded - adenine, guanine, cytosine, thymine RNA (ribonucleic acid) - Serves as the link between DNA and the synthesis of protein products during translation - Single-stranded - adenine, guanine, cytosine, uracil Genes can be dominant, recessive, or intermediate. - Dominant Gene (TT) shows strong effect in either homozygous or heterozygous conditions. - Recessive Gene (Tt) shows effect in homozygous condition only Misconception about Genes A single gene affects one attribute only. The Diathesis-Stress Model Gene-Environment Correlation Model