PSY100Y5 Lecture : Psychological Disorders
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The medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. this term is used to refer to many abnormal behaviors such as mental illness, psychological disorder, and psychopathology (pathology refers to manifestations of disease). the medical model gradually became the dominant way of thinking in the 18th & 19th centuries, and its influence remains strong today. deviance: people are often said to have a disorder because their behavior deviates from what their society considers acceptable. What constitutes normality varies somewhat from culture to another, but all cultures have such norms. When people violate these standards and expectation, they may be labeled mentally ill. (example) transvestic fashion is a sexual disorder in which a man gets sexual arousal by dressing in women"s clothes. This behavior is regarded as disordered because a man who wears a dress, nylons, bras, etc. is deviating from our cultures norms.
