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OF mental health care and mentally ill
November, 2013
types of abnormal behavior psychology and measurement
types of abnormal behavior psy In the initial stages of developing a classification system, observations comprise a classification scheme. If the categories or subcategories are adequately defined, then the next step in the process is measuring the attributes. Measurement is the technological implementation of a classification scheme; in psychology, it involves assessing behavior or response […]
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Classification of Abnormal Behavior
Principles of Classification abnormal behavior A classification scheme attempts to divide natural phenomena into mutually exclusive as well as exhaustive subsets. As mentioned previously, the f irst purpose of classifying is to permit accurate communication that will allow developing, explaining, predicting, or controlling the events that constitute a particular phenomenon. To accomplish this goal, certain […]
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epilepsy attack symptoms
it has been recognized there occasionally occur conditions which stimulate attacks of real epilepsy. On close analysis, however, it is found that these attacks have only a superficial resemblance to epilepsy, and that they are purely functional in nature. In all probability such conditions represent certain types of dissociations of consciousness. These attacks are known […]
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Adaptive Theory of Sleep Psychology
When sleep takes place, however, the relation of sleep to hypnosis ceases. This hypnagogic state occurs in all individuals and is markedly protracted in insomnia, particularly in those subjects who complain of absolute loss of sleep. In this hypnagogic state, many peculiar psychic and motor phenomena may appear, and there is also obtained, as in […]
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Regenerative Theory of Sleep
Sometimes insomnia may be due to the development of a fixed idea that sleep is impossible. One patient said, “I cannot get it out of my skull that I am not going to sleep.” Janet had studied in great detail a case in which the sleeplessness was due to a fixed idea.1 In this case, […]
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sleep theories and the function of sleep
Histological investigations on planaria and earth worms seem to indicate that the photosensitive elements are distributed over the body surface. That the reaction to light is a mechanical or a chemical response without the involvement of consciousness or perception, a mere mechanism, is demonstrated by the fact that brainless organisms become motionless when the light […]
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Theories of Why We Sleep
There were no signs of genuine sleep; that is, relaxation of the limbs, closure of the eyes, and slow, regular respiration were absent. Thus, the interpretation of these motionless states in animals, as sleep, as had been done by other observers, was shown to be without sufficient foundation. Experiments on human subjects demonstrated that they […]
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Why Do We Sleep Psychology
Sleep is normal, psychological, not an evidence of the pathological, the diseased. Sleeping and waking are merely different manifestations of normal life-processes. When the organism becomes fatigued as the result of continued stimulation, those stimuli which have exhausted themselves or ceased to act on the organism by reason of their monotony, drop out and are […]
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New Sleep Theories
The interpretation of sleep as one of the essential life phenomena is the basis of the biological conceptions as elaborated by Claparède, Sidis, and Coriat. In fact, Claparède interprets many abnormal psychic conditions from a purely biological standpoint. His biological theory of sleep has attracted considerable attention.1 According to him, sleep is not due to […]
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Older people’s rights
When we set out to protect older people at all costs, we can compromise their rights. Consent is a basic right that belongs to the older person, and they can decide if they wish to walk around or to have a wash or not. Sometimes their decisions are not in line with what others want […]
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