Abnormal Psychology Chapters 1-7
Psychological Disorder / Abnormal Behavior -
✅1) a psychological dysfunction within an individual that is 2) associated with distress or
impairment in functioning and 3) a response that is not typical or culturally expected
Phobia -
✅a psychological disorder characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object or situation
Abnormal Behavior -
✅1) psychological dysfunction 2) personal distress 3) atypical or not culturally expected
Prevalence -
✅Number of people displaying a disorder in the total population at any given time
Incidence -
✅Number of new cases of a disorder appearing during a specific period
Course -
✅Pattern of development and change of a disorder over time
Supernatural tradition -
✅Physical and mental disorders were considered the work of the devil
Biological tradition -
✅Caused by brain pathology or head trauma and could be influenced by genetics
Psychological tradition -
✅Approaches to the causation of psychopathology, which focus not only on psychological factors
but on social and cultural ones as well
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, Humanistic theory -
✅Setting goals, looking toward the future, and realizing one's fullest potential
Behavioral model -
✅Brought the systematic development of a more scientific approach to psychological aspects of
psychopathology
The Present: scientific method and an integrative approach -
✅Our behavior is a product of a continual interaction of psychological, biological, and social
influences
Id -
✅The unconscious psychical entity present at birth representing basic drives
Ego -
✅The psychical entity responsible for finding realistic and practical ways to satisfy id drives
Superego -
✅The psychical entity representing the internalized moral standards of parents and society
Multidimensional Integrative Approach -
✅Asserts that no single influence operates in iaolation
Diathesis-stress Model -
✅Both an inherited tendency and specific stressful conditions are required to produce a disorder
Reciprocal gene-environment model -
✅People with a genetic predisposition for a disorder may also have a genetic tendency to create
environment risk factors that promote the disorder
Epigenetics -
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Psychological Disorder / Abnormal Behavior -
✅1) a psychological dysfunction within an individual that is 2) associated with distress or
impairment in functioning and 3) a response that is not typical or culturally expected
Phobia -
✅a psychological disorder characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object or situation
Abnormal Behavior -
✅1) psychological dysfunction 2) personal distress 3) atypical or not culturally expected
Prevalence -
✅Number of people displaying a disorder in the total population at any given time
Incidence -
✅Number of new cases of a disorder appearing during a specific period
Course -
✅Pattern of development and change of a disorder over time
Supernatural tradition -
✅Physical and mental disorders were considered the work of the devil
Biological tradition -
✅Caused by brain pathology or head trauma and could be influenced by genetics
Psychological tradition -
✅Approaches to the causation of psychopathology, which focus not only on psychological factors
but on social and cultural ones as well
1|Page
, Humanistic theory -
✅Setting goals, looking toward the future, and realizing one's fullest potential
Behavioral model -
✅Brought the systematic development of a more scientific approach to psychological aspects of
psychopathology
The Present: scientific method and an integrative approach -
✅Our behavior is a product of a continual interaction of psychological, biological, and social
influences
Id -
✅The unconscious psychical entity present at birth representing basic drives
Ego -
✅The psychical entity responsible for finding realistic and practical ways to satisfy id drives
Superego -
✅The psychical entity representing the internalized moral standards of parents and society
Multidimensional Integrative Approach -
✅Asserts that no single influence operates in iaolation
Diathesis-stress Model -
✅Both an inherited tendency and specific stressful conditions are required to produce a disorder
Reciprocal gene-environment model -
✅People with a genetic predisposition for a disorder may also have a genetic tendency to create
environment risk factors that promote the disorder
Epigenetics -
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