PSYC 110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Schizophrenia, Oral Stage
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How do psychologists explain psychological disorders: behaviors or mental processes that are connected with various kinds of distress or disability. Why is classification important: it gives researchers a way to communicate and make progress. How do different psychology theories explain different anxiety disorders: psychological. Generalized anxiety is persistent difficulty in repressing primitive impulses. Compulsions are seen as acts that allow people to keep such impulses partly repressed. Behaviorists: phobias are seen as conditioned fears that were acquired in early childhood, origins are beyond memory. Anxiety may reflect natural selection (evolutionary forces would have favored the survival of individuals who were predisposed toward acquiring fears of various potential harmful stimuli) Anxiety disorders may reflect the interaction of biological and psychological factors. How do different theories explain dissociative disorders: psychodynamic: People with dissociative disorders use massive repression to prevent them from recognizing improper impulses or remembering ugly events. Dissociative amnesia and fugue- the person forgets a profoundly disturbing event or impulse.
