PSY BEH 102C Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Mental Health, Psychopathology, Etiology
1 Apr 2017
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Psychological disorder: a psychological dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typically or culturally expected. Phobia: disorder characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object or situation. A breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning. Just having a dysfunction does not mean you have a psychological disorder: personal distress or impairment. It would be abnormal to be shy to the point you cannot interact with people even though you really want to make friends: atypical or not culturally expected. Does not necessarily mean deviating from the average. Behavior is abnormal if you are violating social norms. However, social standard for normal may be misused. Very difficult to say what exactly is a disease or disorder: use a prototype to use comparison methods to come to those conclusions. Dsm-5: describes behavioral, psychological, and biological dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with present distress and impairment in functioning.
