Psych 2010 Final Exam - Google Docs PDF

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These notes are extremely well detailed and well structured. I earned a 97 in the class from these notes. Teacher: Jo Jorgensen ...

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Psych Final Exam 11/14/19 Chapter 14: psychological disorders What is normal behavior/abnormal? ● Abnormal behavior ○ 1. !Deviance!: Behavior that deviates from society ■ Upside down U parabola (bell curve) on right side woma cats but where do you draw the line? ■ Least important: is not always bad, if IQ is 184 you are s these fuckers ■ Continuum on which people are psychologically stable o ● Involves value judgements ○ 2. !Personal Distress:! insecure, anxious, overly depressed ○ 3. !Disfunction!: prevents you from carrying on daily life ■ Most important: can keep you from going to a job ○ Danger not included on list bc not everyone with mental illnesse Medical Model ● Says it is !useful! to think of abnormal behavior as a disease ○ If you get treated for depression in one part of the country and m part, and the doctor says you have a different schema ● Not a good or bad thing ● Diagnosis: distinguishing one disorder from another ● Etiology: why, apparent causation ○ Biopsychosocial: every disorder has a biological component (br hormones, etc), a psychological component (ex. How we view th were raised, learned helplessness), and a social component (the e around you: where you were raised) DSM b k t di...