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• griesinger and kraepelin paved the way for....

  the modern medical model, which attempts to explain abnormal behavior on the basis of underlying biological defects or abnormalities not evil spirits

• when did the medical model gain support?

  late 19th century with discovery that an advanced stage of SYPHILIS - in which teh bacterium that causes the disease directly invades the brain itself - led to a form of disturbed behavior called general paresis
  -discovery of alzheimers

• Jean Martin Charcot

  experimented with the use of hypnosis in treating hysteria
  -freud attented her demonstration

• sociocultural theorists believe the causes of abnormal behavior are foudn in..

  failures of society rather than in the person (ills of society, unemployment, poverty, injustice)
  -also focus on relationships between mental health and social factors such as gender, social class, ethnicity and lifestyle.

• what is the scientific method? (steps)

  1. formulating a research question 2. framing the research question in the form of a hypothesis 3. testing the hypothesis 4. drawing conclusions about the hypothesis

• what do institutions suh as universities and hospitals have to keep ethics in research?

  review committees called institutional review boards that review proposed research studies in the light of ethical guidelines

• Experimental method- random assignment

  a method of assigning research subjects at random to experimental or control groups to balances groups on the characteristics of people that comprise them

• experimental method - selection factor

  a type of bias in which differences between experimental and control groups result from differences in the type of participants in the groups, not from the independent variable

• experimental method - blind:

  a state of being unaware of whether one has received an experimental treatment

• Experimental method- placebo:

  an inert medication or bogus treatment that is intended to control for expectancy effects