PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Frontal Lobe, Psych, Psychology
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Defining abnormal behaviour: personal distress, violation of norms. Although violation of a norm today may not be a violation of a norm a year ago: behaviour must threaten or make anxious the person observing it, disability or dysfunction. When it doesn"t affect their ability to engage in the activities of daily living, they are not impaired: unexpectedness. The distress and the disability of the behaviour are unexpected. Irrational/abnormal thought processes: field is always evolving, it is not possible to offer a simple definition of abnormality, no two patients are the same. History of abnormal psych: early demonology. Treppening make the body and mind as uncomfortable as possible, trying to get the demon to leave the body: persecution of witches . Aka the mentally ill: eventually, there were too many patients with psychological disorders. Dryshock made people have full brain seizures. Metrosol therapy also puts people in seasure. Lobotomy, cutting connection between frontal lobes and cortex of the brain.
