PSY30310 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Research Domain Criteria, Neuroimaging, Implicit Memory
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Abnormal test 1 - (chapters 1, 2, & 3) Psychopathology: the field concerned with the nature, development and treatment of psychological disorders. Stigma: destructive beliefs and attitudes held by a society that are ascribed to groups considered different in some manner. Four characteristics of stigma: label is applied to group, label is linked to deviant or undesirable attributes, people with label are seed as different, people with label are discriminated against. People knowledge has increased, but stigma hasn"t decreased. Defining psychological disorder 4 key characteristics that should be part of any comprehensive psychological disorder definition: Personal distress person"s behavior can be disordered if it causes him distress, but not all psych disorders cause distress. Disability impairment in some important area of life phobias, substance abuse. Violation of social norms widely held standards violated vary across cultures. Dysfunction: harmful dysfunction 2 parts: a value judgment and an objective, scientific component the dysfunction.
