Abnormal Psychology Chapter 1,2,3

Abnormal Psychology Chapter 1,2,3

abnormal psychology -

✅the scientific study of abnormal behavior in an effort to describe, predict, explain,and change
abnormal patterns of functioning.



deviant -

✅different, unusual, extreme, bizarre



distressing -

✅unpleasant and upsetting to the person



dysfunctional -

✅interfering with the person's ability to conduct daily activities in a constructive way.



norms -

✅a societies stated and unstated rules for proper conduct



Thomas Szas -

✅finds mental illnesses to be invalid or a myth, rather these people have problems in living.



eccentricity -

✅an unusual pattern with which others have no right to interfere.



treatment/therapy -

✅a procedure to help change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior.



trephination -

✅an ancient operation in which a stone intstrument was used to cut away a circular section of
the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior. (release demons)



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, exorcism -

✅coax evil spirits to leave or to make the body uncomfortable for them to live in.



humors -

✅bodily chemicals that influence mental and physical functioning. (yellow bile, black bile, blood,
phlegm)



tarantism -

✅thought to be bitten by a tarantula.



lycanthropy -

✅possessed by wolves or other animals.



Johann Weyer -

✅believed that the mind id susceptible to sickness like the body. founder of psychopathology.



moral treatment -

✅a 19th century approach to treating people with mental dysfunction that emphasized moral
guidance and humane and respectful treatment.



Benjamin Rush -

✅spread moral treatment in America



Dorthea Dix -

✅spread moral treatment in America and created state hospitals



state hospitals -

✅state-run public mental institutions in the US



somatic perspective

phychogenic perspective -

✅the view that abnormal functioning has psychological causes

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