PSYC 2030U Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Psychology, Paresis, Biology Of Depression
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Lecture one, abnormal psychology definition, history, canadian text, abnormal. Mental illness is due to emotional weakness : false. Bad parenting is a major cause of mental illness: false. Sinful behaviour is responsible for much mental illness : false. The mentally ill could recover if they really wanted to : false. Mentally ill are more violent than normal people: false (more likely to harm self or be harmed. Mental illnesses are generally curable: false, (assisted to manage) Psychopathy; the field concerned with the nature and development of abnormal behaviour, thoughts, and feelings, we do well to keep in mind that the subject offers few hard and fast answers. Has several chacteristics but no single one is adequate although each has a merit and captures some part of what may be the full definition. Abnormal behaviour: includes such chacteristics as statistical infrequency, violation of norms, personal distress, disability or dysfunction and unexpectedness: statistical infrequency:
