PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Major Depressive Episode, Personality Disorder, Etiology
13 Jan 2018
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Disorder characteristics and symptoms, etiology (casual factors) and treatment. Abnormal psychology = is the branch of psychology that studies unusual patterns of behaviour, emotion and thought, which may or may not be understood as precipitating a mental disorder. Although many behaviours could be considered as abnormal, this branch of psychology generally deals with behaviour in a clinical context. No, because the concept of abnormality changes over time and differs across cultures and subcultures. The concepts of abnormality and normality are so vague, despite many attempts of people trying to give it a criteria and de nition. ), how is this functioning your school or work functioning and leading into a nancial crisis. Methods for de ning abnormality: in real life you would use a combination of these tactics and methods. Statistical concept = frequency in behaviour or thought that de nes abnormality. A behaviour is judged as abnormal if it occurs infrequently within the population.
