Psychology test 1

Define psychology

The study of mind and behaviour

Define psychiatry and identify how its different from psychology

Psychiatry is the branch of medicine focused on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of mental, emotional and behavioural disorders. Psychologists are doctorally trained professionals who provide psychotherapy and assessments while psychiatrists are medical doctors who can prescribe medications and oversee medical interventions

What did aunt Dorothy do? And what was done to her

She had several kids with different men and didn’t raise any of them. One kid was adopted by her mom, and the decided it was time to stop, puting Doroty into a mental institution. Dorothy was isolated and put in a strait jacket, underwent shock therapy, and they gave her a lobotomy.

Define lobotomy (plus facts)

The surgical procedure in which the nerve patheays in a lobe or loves of the brain are severed from thos areas.

• formally used as a radical therapuutic measure

• to show benifits they swapped before and after photos

• performed with the intention to calm not return to sanity

  • first wwas performed in 1880s

King Psamtik

Was an egyptian king 2700 years ago. He believed egyptians where superior and conducted the first ever psychological experiment by taking newborn twins from a woman named fatima and giving them to the quiet shepard omar. To prove no outside influence would result in them speaking egyptian. After months they finally said “becos'“ and scholars studied to find it was the phrygian word for bread. The truth is it was nonsense babbling.

Genie

When she was born her father locked her in a room where she was strapped in a chair cut to be like a toilet or locked in a cage. Nobody was allowed to speak to her or they would be beat. Her mom took one of her kids to the hospital and they saw genie hunched over, pale and malnourished. The cops where called and they found genies room. Her father was arrested and people fought over who got to rehabilitate and research genie. A paired of doctors decided to foster her and help teach her how to be a person i the world. She started at 13 meaning it was a slow process but when public interest decreased so id finding so they put her back in foster care where she was beat for throwing up and she stoppe dspeaking. She now lives her life in a care home.

Victor

In 1799 a boy was seen exiting the woods in Aveyron France. He was about 12, naked and animal-like. he tried to walk on all 4s, couldn’t speak, and he ate without his hands. A man named Itard tried to help rehabilitate him and eventually taught him how to dress himself, eat with his hands, and play simple games. However he was poorly tempered, easily frustrated, and violent. He bit his clothes, broke chairs and shredded his sheets. Itard gave up and gave him to the village where a woman cared for him. He died in his 40s

Timeline

1853- First use of the term psychology.

1901- Ivan Pavlov discovers the conditioned reflex.

1948- B.F Skinner introduces the Idea of reinforcement

Brian Willson

Video: someone thrashed around in a straight jacket, watering fish in buckets, a dog jumping and barking at the camera. “Lying in bed just like brian Wilson did”. Family: He became a recule and gained lots of weight. He had 2 daughters and they maid a band called Wilson Philips. He was in the beach boys band. Willison Philips played in the movie bridesmaids. Barenakedladies made a song about him. He became addicted to food and drugs becoming extremely overweight and unable to leave the bed. he died in 2025

Explain how flipping a coin can help you make life decisions

Flip a coin to hypothetically decide your fate and then take note of how you react to the outcome.

Identify the 5 big factors of personality

• Conscientiousness - Ability to handle tasks and organize skills

• Agreeableness - Warmth, generosity, and helpfulness

• Neuroticism - Worry and sense of instability

• Openness to Experience - Desire to try new things

• Extroversion - Need to seek social support

What is empty nest syndrom?

A parents feeling of sadness and loneliness after all of their children have moved out of the house (usually women)

Menopause

Women stop ovulating and can no longer have kids. Men do not experience a biological equivalent. Half of women interviewed said they felt better, more confident, calmer and freer after menopause. Women tend to feel better about the fact they no longer have to worry about periods or pregnancy

Define Thanatology

The study of dying and death

Hospices

Hospice is a special place where termanily ill people go to die. Doctors dont prolong life but improve quality of life. They use tranquilizers and other drugs to ease discomfort and relieve pain

Babinski

Before an infants first birthday if you tickle the feet their toes flare outwards while when they grow up they curl in and withdraw. This is called the babinski reflex. It is a sign of normal neurological development.

What is SIDS

Sudden infant death syndrome. It can be prevented by back sleeping, swaddling, and no extra stuff in their crib.

Describe Harry Harllows experaments

He put a cloth and a wire mother with a bottle side by side and the monkey only went to the wire monkey when it needed to eat. He scarred it and it ran to the cloth mother for comfort. The robot that scared it had sharp teeth a nodding head and waving arms. He put the monkey in an unfamiliar room and it only felt comfortable when the cloth mother was around.

Identify and describe the 3 parenting stlyes

Authoritarian: Parents are the boss. They do not need to explain their actions or demands. THey believe children have no right to question parental decisions.

Democratic/authoritative: Children participate in decisions affecting their lives. They negotiate. Parents listen to their children reasons for wanting to go somewhere or do something and make an effort to explain their reasons and expectations. Children make decisions for themselves but parents can Vito them.

Permissive/laissez - faire: Children have final say. parents may guide but will give into the children. Setting no rules about behaviour making no demands, voicing no expectations and virtuality ignoring the young people in their house

What was leos argument regarding phrenology?

That black people have 3 dimples in the submissive part of their brain, making thems slavesW

What does the textbook say about phrenology?

The practice of examining bumps on a persons skull to determine that person’s intellect and character traits. It becomes an important practice in the mid 1800s. phrenology may have inspires scientists to consider the brain instead of the heart responsible for behaviour.

Jane goodall

She observed behaviour of chimpanzees in Tanzania, Africa, to obtain data. She observed behaviour for 30s years. She earned their trust by living with them. British

Self fulfilling prophecy

A situation in which a researchers expectations influence that persons own behaviour and thereby influence the participants behaviour. Story: 3 girls where borth on friday the 13th and the midwife told the moms that they would die before the age of 23. The first two died before the age of 16 so the mother told her daughter about the midwifes prophecy. For years she was worried about dying at any moment and the night before her 23rd birthday she checked herself into a hospital just in case anything went wrong. As the clock approached midnight she grew more and more panicked triggering a panic attack that killed her.

Summarize the story of clever hans and explain how its a self fulfilling prophecy

Clever hans was a horse that seemed to be able to answer many questions. his owner Mr.von osten taught him to tap his for for certain numbers and osten came to the conclusion that horses where extremely intelligent. Oskar pfungst was suspicious and took testing into his own hands. He learned hans could only answer questions if they were already calculated. Upon further investigation he realized hans only started tapping his foot if you leaning forward and he would stop tapping if you stood up strait, raised your eyebrows, or flared your nostrils. This was further confirmed when hans wore a blinder and couldn’t answer the questions. Von osten made this a self fulfilling prophecy because he unintentionally communicated to hans how he was meant to behave.

Who was jack Kavorkian

Dr death. he spent 1999-2007 in jail after he assisted over 130 patients die. Different sources say different causes of death but i read it was thrombosis aka a blood clot in the heart. He made many peices of art all depicting grusom things.

One flew over the cokoos’s nest

R.P McMurphy was the MMC he pretended to be insane to get out of jail and caused many problems in the psych ward. He had a lobotomy in the end and was killed by chief. Chezwick and billy bibbot are other notable character.