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-Behavior def: some kinds of strange/unusual/ clinically
abnormal
-Socially deviant: socially unacceptable against norms
-Maladaptive: psychology favors this one: self-defeating
behavior
Definition of
psychopathology (what
-Issues w these def's, pathology doesn't involve any
behavior), position taken in
characteristic behavior.
lecture? Specific arguments
raised in favor of or against
-Disability def: behavioral disabilities
def?
"dysfunctional/impairment, harmful dysfunctions
-Preferred: pathological state w person in restriction in
ability to engage in deliberate action/social and
communal practices
-"ABILITY TO LOVE OR TO WORK"
-Dysfunction not to a kind of behavior, harmful.
-P is in pathological state in restriction to engage in
What is a social or communal practices.
disability/dysfunction
definition of -Difference between this and behavioral def?
psychopathology? -Doesn't have to do with behaviors it's a state and
actions
-Restriction in abilities
-Deliberate actions
, -"person is in pathological state when significant
restriction in his/her ability to engage in deliberate
action, equivalently to participate in social practices of
community."
How Ossario defines
-Significant restriction in ability
psychopathology?
-Engage in deliberate action
-Important behavior, food, sex, alcohol, set of
behaviors.
If you knew Jill was starving No, because motives are important. You need to know
herself, should you more about the situation before diagnosing.
conclude on this basis that
she has a
psychopathological
condition? Why or why
not?
-Normality: not abnormal, not pathological, simply
absence of pathology
According to Osorio (a)
what is "normality" and (b) -Positive mental health: person is not in pathological
what is "positive mental state, but beyond this, is capable of participating in life
health" in meaningful and fulfilling ways
-Very capable of "love and work"
-A persistent and unreasonable fear of a particular
object, activity, or situation.
What is a phobia? Types of
phobias? -Must be debilitating
-Germaphobia, spiders, small spaces (claustrophobia)
, -Due to classical conditioning, some neutral stimulus
gets paired with another stimulus that naturally elicits an
intense fear response, and thereby acquires the ability
to elicit that fear response.
Behavioral explanations for
-Ex. Pavlov and dog experiment
phobias? What causes
them? What causes them to
-Extinction doesn't occur, so person never learns that
persist for periods of time?
the object or situation is actually safe and not
threatening.
-Most come from some sort of trauma, person
associates that with something non harmful.
Does behavioral -It doesn't explain everything abt her fear, bc she has
explanation explain been exposed to snow and extinction hasn't occurred. It
everything abt hilda's snow doesn't really work w classical conditioning.
phobia? What does it
explain? What if anything, -She didn't forget, it was repressed.
doesn't it explain?
-1st: phobic person really afraid of something else.
Apparent feared object is really a displacement object.
-Ex. Little Hans: horse falls in street, makes loud noise,
and dies. Hans becomes fearful of horses.
-Ex. Hilda has a repressed real fear, which isn't snow.
What are the two Freud looks for something more frightening to explain
psychoanalytic repressed fear.
explanations for phobias?
What is each of these -2nd: theory of all neurotic symptoms.
explanations saying?
-Stressful life events drain energy from ego and/or give
additional energy to repressed contents, resulting in
symptom: disguised, partial eruption of repressed
content.
-Basically, the repressed contents could be sexual,
aggressive impulses, or anxiety provoking memories.