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Application of Psychology (Anti-Psychiatry (Anti-Psychiarty (Anti…

- - - - USA = lack of respect for authority
      - Offered German culture + new science of psych
      - Psych in place of a monarchy
    - - Against reliance on EWT
      - Demonstrations of assults
      - Warned against blind confidence in observation from normal man
      - Legal procedures - witness stand
    - - Saw patients
      - Wrote book: psychotherapy - dispel myths and challenge psychoanalysis
    - - Psychology and Industrial Efficiency
      - switchboard operators (analytical) - e
      - railway motor men ( synthetic) - p
- - - - Targets difficult to discriminate from background
      - Very few targets
      - Long periods of isolated work in darkened rooms
      - Efficiency could drop 80% over a 40-min watch
      - Clock Test: Monitor for rare "double jumps" on rotating black pointer - fails even in first 1/2 hour
    - - Early studies on detection rate (and/or RT)
        
        false alarm rates only sometimes reported
      - Not dissociating different measures
        
        parallel decline of detection + false alarm = support for increasing conservatism account
        
        decline in detection + stable or increasing false alarms = support deterioration of perceptual sensitivity
    - - d' reflecting sensitivity to signal
      - B reflecting level of evidence at which observer is willing to report signal
- - - - Counselling and Psychotherapy
      - Context = struggle between medical doctors and psychologists (psychotherapy)
      - Unconditional positive regard
        
        Empathetic understanding
        
        Congruence, genuine understanding
- - - - Lobotomy: serving nerve fibres connecting frontal to prefrontal cortex
      - Ice pick lobotomy: ice pick inserted under local anaesthetic
      - Electroshocks: 100v through electrode place bi/unilaterally, 3x/ week 2/7 wks, muscles relaxants to prevent physical injury (still used for severe depression today)
    - - Pressure group
      - Political tool
      - Rebellion also within 'establishement'
      - More respect for patients, short hospitalisation, measures to prevent (humanise)