PSYC 100 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Anxiety, Major Depressive Disorder, Anxiety Disorder
PSYC 100
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Lecture 1:
Things you need:
- Textbook (must)
- Show up to lecture
- Study with other people; make up questions
- DSM is contantly expanding- look up DSM 5 if you want the correct up to
date info.
• Abnormal: varies, among time, culture, place
• > behavioral, psychological, biological dysfunctions that are
unexpected in their cultural context and associated with present
distress and impairment in functioning , or increased risk of suffering,
death, pain, or impairment
• Psychopathology: study of
• What is abnormal?
• Interfere with daily function
• unusual /not expected
• No single definition of psychological abnormality/normality
• Standards of abnormality
• Statistical infrequency: (paranoia,hallucinations, clinical
depression)
• Psychological dysfunction: breakdown in cognitive, emotional,
or behavioral functioning
• Personal distress (suicidal thoughts, upset at own behavior,
sometimes love who they are ex.transvite)
• Deviation from ideal (failure to reach whole potential; very
vague)
• Not cultureally expected
• All definitions are incomplete
• History of psychopathology: supernatural tradition ;mental illness was
thought to be the result of supernatural forces. ( hole in the head,
release evil spirits)
• Biological tradition: 5th century BC, mental illness- a PHYSICAL
disease. ( hippocrates and unbalanced humors)
• Somatogenesis (abnormal behavior has origins in the body)
• Dark ages: (demonology makes a come-back)
• Asylums: immoral
• Moral treatment (1790+)
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• Psycho analysis: all behaviors are from unconsicous (we cannot
know it)
• Freud, jung
• When unconscious thoughts bubbled up, abnormal
behaviors happen
• Behaviorism: rewards and punishments determine behavior
• Watson, pavlov, skinner
• Abnormal behavior is
• Humanism : abnormal behaviors happen because people not feeling
accepted/connected
• Rogers, maslow
• Unconditional positive regard: make patients feel safe
Mental illness- combination of biological, pschological, sociological causes
treatment : somatic therapy/ psychotherapy
- Mind body dualism is no longer a theory
- Multidimensional model of abnormal behavior
-biological influences
-behavioral influences
-emotional influences
-social influences
-developmental influences
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Document Summary
Study with other people; make up questions. Mental illness- combination of biological, pschological, sociological causes treatment : somatic therapy/ psychotherapy. Mind body dualism is no longer a theory. Psychological vulnerability due to experience (see the world as. Most of the disorder isn"t straight from the genes. Behavior is typically polygenetic (multiple genes interact over another) Reaction range: degree of potential outcome determined by heredity (lowerst level of intelligence to the highest level of intelligence) Example: alcoholism, animal aggression (environment needs to activate the gene) Reciprocal gene-environment model out depressing situations, bad relationships etc, which further enforces the depresssion) Environmental changes in parent generation can get passed down. Example: depression, (ppl with depression and more likely to seek. Serotonin transporter gene (5-htt); reuptake process of serotonin (monkey experiment: anxious monkey, meet calm mom, grow up calm, and become a calm mom) > influence of parenting on aggressive behavior (aggressive behavior depended on parental experience for the monkeys carrying aggressive behavior)
