Abnormal Psych- Important notes
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- 2 comprehensive levels of analysis
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biological (somatogenic)
psychological (psychogenic) - Notions of supernatural causation gave way to more materialist scientific explaination
- ex. demonology
- 4 Humors (had to have balance of to be normal)
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blood- tempermental
black bile- melancholy
yellow bile- irritable/anxious
flem- dull, sluggish - Ideology of the French Rev led ______ in 1793 to unchain patients and offered care, other humanitarian efforts followed
- Phillip Pinel
- Phrenology
- Franz Gall 1758-1828 studied bumps on brain to tell characteristics of a person
- Currently defined abnormal behavoir
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1.Statistcal Infrequency
2.Violations of norms
3.Personal distress
4.Disability or behavorial dysfunction
5.unexpectedness - Statistical infrequency
- How often does the behavior occur in the normal population?
- Violations of norms
- Does the behavior violate social norms or threaten others?, Does it make other ppl anxious, worried, or afraid?
- Personal distress
- causes personal suffering, distress, and torment
- Disability or behavor dysfunction
- causes a disability or impairment in a person's functioning
- Unexpectedness
- given the situation, behavior can be abnormal when they occur as unexpected responses to environmental stressors
- learning perspective
- a result of conditioning
- cognitive perspective
- people's thought patterns and reframe
- humanistic perspective
- Carl Rogers self-actualization people's problem stem from how they see themselves
- Psychodynamic perspective
- past childhood resulted in problems today