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A Mind Odyssey

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PALAZZOLI

MILAN SCHOOL

 

PARADOXICAL FAMILY THERAPY

 

PARKINSON

 

 

PARSONS

SICK ROLE

2 RIGHTS;

RESPONSIBILITY EXEMPTION

NOT RESPOSIBLE FOR ONES CONDITION

2 OBLIGATIONS;

WANT TO RECOVER

SEEK HELP

 

 

PATAU

 

 

PAVLOV

CLASSICAL RESPONDENT LEARNING.USED LIGHT OR BELL W FOOD FOR DOGS.

CLASSIC; FOOD 1ST.

DELAYED CONDITIONING

BELL FOLLOWED BY FOOD LED TO SALIVATION

0.5 SEC DELAY BEST.

NOTE HERE THE LIGHT CONTINUED UNTIL THE RESPONSE OCCURRED.

 

 

 

SIMULTANEOUS CONDITIONING

ONSET OF BOTH AT THE SAME TIME .LESS SUCCESSFUL THAN DELAYED.

TRACE CONDITIONING

BELL ENDS BEFORE FOOD STARTED.GREATER GAP WORSE CONDITIONING.

EXTINCTION AND PARTIAL RECOVERY

GENERALISATION

DISCRIMINATION

INCUBATION -----increase in response following brief exposures

STIMULUS PREPAREDNESS- SELIGMANN.

LITTLE ALBERT------WATSON AND RAYNER white rat w loud noise in 11/12 old.

NB ALSO THAT RESCORLE IS A BIG NAME IN CLASSICAL CONDITIONING

 

 

PERLS

GESTAULT THERAPY

 

 

PERRIS

UNIPOLAR

BIPOLAR DEPRESSION

 

 

PIAGET

CURIOSITY AND EXPLORITORY DRIVE

OBJECT CONSTANCY

GENETIC EPISTEMOLOGY- THIS IS WHAT HE CALLED THE STUDY OF KIDS INTELLIGENCE

MODEL OF COGNITIVE DEV

SCHEMES

ASSIMILATION

ACCOMODATION

SENSORIMOTOR STAGE 0-2

PREOPERATIONAL 2-7

CONCRETE OPERATIONAL 7-12

FORMAL OPERATIONAL 13+

 

 

PICK

DESCRIBED THE SIMPLEX SYNDROME

 

 

PINEL

UNCHAINING LUNATICS

MORAL TX

MANIE SANS DELIRE

 

 

PLUTCHIK

 

 

PRIMARY EMOTIONS;

DISGUST

ANGER

ANTICIPATION

JOY

ACCEPTANCE

FEAR

SURPRISE

SADNESS

SECONDARY EMOTIONS;

CONTEMPT

LOVE

SUBMISSION

DISAPPOINTMENT

POLLITT

TYPE S-------SOMATIC DEPRESSION

TYPE J -----JUSTIFIABLE DEPRESSION

 

 

PRITCHARD 1835

MORAL INSANITY FOR P.D.

 

 

Pallilalia

word or phrase is repeated

 

 

Panic attacks

acute, episodic attacks of extreme anxiety - may occur with or without physiological symptoms

 

Pareidolia

vivid imagery that occurs whilst looking at a poorly structured background

 

Paramnesia

distorted recall leading to falsification of memory e.g. confabulation, déjà vu, déjà pensé, jamais vu, retrospective falsification

 

Passing by the point (vorbeigehen)

answers to questions, though obviously wrong indicate that the person has understood the question. e.g how many legs has a table? - 3. Occurs in Ganser's Syndrome - described in prisoners awaiting trial

 

Passivity phenomena

delusional belief that an external agency is controlling the aspects of oneself that are usually under one's own control - e.g. though alienation, made feelings, made impulses, made actions and somatic passivity

 

Perseveration (of speech and movement)

 mental operations carry on past the point that they serve a function e.g. what day is it? Monday, what time is it? Monday. Seen in organic disorders

 

Personality disorders

deeply ingrained and pervasive patterns of behaviour that are seen in a wide range of situations and cause distress to oneself or others

 

Phobia

persistent irrational fear of an activity or object. This leads to avoidance. The fear is out of proportion of the reality of the threat

Posturing

inappropriate or bizarre bodily posture adopted continuously over a sustained period

 

 

Poverty of speech

reduced speech - tends to occur in severe depressive states

 

Pressure of speech

increased quantity and rate of speech - tends to occur in manic states

 

 

Primary delusion

delusion arriving fully formed without any discernable connection with previous events

 

 

Profound mental retardation

IQ of less than 20

 

Projection

defense mechanism in which repressed thoughts and wishes are attributed to other people or objects

 

Prosopagnosia

inability to recognise faces

 

Pseudodementia

depressive states in the elderly may present as a dementia

 

Pseudohallucination

form of imagery arising in the subjective inner space and lack the substantiality usual of normal perceptions.

 

Psychosis

disorder in which the individual does not have insight and constructs a false environment out of inner experiences

 

 

Pure word deafness

words that are heard cannot be comprehended

 

from multiple sources including lecture notes