When did the modern era of psychopharmacology begin and what events were most associated with its beginning?
What will be an ideal response?
It began in the 1950's with the discovery that chlorpromazine reduced or eliminated many of the core symptoms of schizophrenia in a much more specific fashion than previous drugs and with (apparently) lower toxicity. With this discovery, there was a dramatic change in the treatment of mental illness. This led to many pharmaceutical companies attempting to formulate other similar drugs, one of which (imipramine) was found to be very effective in the treatment of depression. It also provided evidence that certain forms of mental illness had a biochemical basis, rather than being due to purely environmental conditions (e.g., "bad" parenting).
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You are walking down a deserted alley late at night; and you hear a sudden noise to your left. Your sympathetic nervous system prepares your body for fight or flight, and you experience fear. Just before you turn to run, however, you see a cat race away from the trash can he was digging in. "Oh, that was the noise," you think. Instead of experiencing fear, you laugh wildly at what you had imagined was coming after you in the alley. This set of events is best described by which theory of emotion?
a. the common sense theory b. the James-Lange theory c. Schachter's cognitive theory d. the Cannon-Bard theory
With respect to motor development, reaction time
a. is better in females than males. b. improves with age. c. declines after adolescence. d. remains the same over time.
Metamessages are those messages in which you say one thing and mean another; these can be quite confusing to the listener
Indicate whether the statement is true or false
Developmental psychologists think that these factors contribute to a child's gross motor development:
a. genes and the child's own efforts to practice. b. genes and maturation of the brain c. genes, maturation of the brain, support from adults d. genes, maturation of the brain, support from adults, and the child's own efforts to practice.