PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Palpitations, Social Anxiety Disorder, Perspiration

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Rosalinde Klempan

Document Summary

A harmful dysfuncion that shows one or more of 4 criterion. 1- deviaion from staisical norms: atypical behavior. 2- deviaion from social norms: behavior is disturbing, note: norms difer from society to society; norms change over ime. 3- maladapiveness of behavior: does behavior afect well-being of individual or social group, personal distress may be the only signs/symptoms of abnormality. 4- raionally unjusiiable behavior: unsupported by popular acceptance. Insane is a legal term: refers to whether person knows right from wrong. Sees psychological disorders as similar to physical ones: as illness, require diagnosis based on symptoms, need treatment. Combining factors interact to produce psychological disorders: factors are biological, psychological and sociocultural, ex. Help invesigate and uncover causes of diferent abnormal behaviors: grouping individuals according to similariies in abnormal behavior: help clarify causes, improve communicaion about people with similar symptoms, help plan treatment based on how similar paients responded.