PBSi 306 EXAM 1 WITH COMPLETE SOLUTIONS!!
Is it abnormal ?
Context is important
- they are different things that might affects if something is determined as abnormal and
normal
Continuum model of abnormality
- there is no clear dividing line
- understanding, treating and preventing psychological dysfunction
Four D's of Abnormality
- Dysfunction
- Distress
- Deviant
- Danger
The diseases model
Common belief
,- mental illness: has to do with something biologically wrong with the person
- Behavior, thoughts, and feelings are pathological
Modern View
Mental illness: is a collection of multiple problems
- takes into account the interactions between biological, social, and psychological
Cultural Relativism
- way people express symptoms
- affects people willingness to admit behaviors o feelings
- type of treatment deemed acceptable or helpful
Biology theories
similar to diseases model, is caused by failure by breakdown of body systems
Supernatural theories
,Results of Devine interventions, demonic, possessions
Psychological theories
psychological process or chronic stress
Prehistoric times
- Exorcisms
- driving evil spirits out the body
Trephination
An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular
section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior.
Ancient China
- balancing Ying and Yang
- emotions controlled by the internal organs
Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome
, - Biological causes of abnormal behavior
- Hysteria refers to psychological symptoms caused by physical processes
- Diseases result from imbalances in the body's essential humors
- Women's symptoms = "wondering uterus"
Average and Romans
Abnormality was affliction from the god's
Hippocrates
- Diseases caused by imbalance in the body humor
- blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
4 categories of abnormal behavior
- Epilepsy
- mania
- melancholia
- brain fever
Medieval times
Is it abnormal ?
Context is important
- they are different things that might affects if something is determined as abnormal and
normal
Continuum model of abnormality
- there is no clear dividing line
- understanding, treating and preventing psychological dysfunction
Four D's of Abnormality
- Dysfunction
- Distress
- Deviant
- Danger
The diseases model
Common belief
,- mental illness: has to do with something biologically wrong with the person
- Behavior, thoughts, and feelings are pathological
Modern View
Mental illness: is a collection of multiple problems
- takes into account the interactions between biological, social, and psychological
Cultural Relativism
- way people express symptoms
- affects people willingness to admit behaviors o feelings
- type of treatment deemed acceptable or helpful
Biology theories
similar to diseases model, is caused by failure by breakdown of body systems
Supernatural theories
,Results of Devine interventions, demonic, possessions
Psychological theories
psychological process or chronic stress
Prehistoric times
- Exorcisms
- driving evil spirits out the body
Trephination
An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular
section of the skull, perhaps to treat abnormal behavior.
Ancient China
- balancing Ying and Yang
- emotions controlled by the internal organs
Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome
, - Biological causes of abnormal behavior
- Hysteria refers to psychological symptoms caused by physical processes
- Diseases result from imbalances in the body's essential humors
- Women's symptoms = "wondering uterus"
Average and Romans
Abnormality was affliction from the god's
Hippocrates
- Diseases caused by imbalance in the body humor
- blood, phlegm, yellow bile, black bile
4 categories of abnormal behavior
- Epilepsy
- mania
- melancholia
- brain fever
Medieval times
