Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Operant Conditioning, Genital Stage, Systematic Desensitization

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Mental illness is something contrary to cultural norm- societal expectations- different cultures have different norms-interferes with daily life. Relate to each other in a non-violent manner. Former patients are unstable and dangerous-people would prefer to have their child babysat by a murder that a psychiatric patient. Mental illness is a hopeless situation-new treatments coming out all the time to improve behavior. Psychological dysfunction- a breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral function. Distress or impairment- difficulty performing appropriate and expected tasks and causing distress: impairment is set in the context of a persons background. Atypical or unexpected cultural response-reaction is outside societal norms. Psychological disorder and psychological abnormality are used interchangeable. Mental illness is a less preferred term. Psychopathology is the scientific study of psychological disorders. Widely accepted system for classifying psychological problems and disorders-you want it to be reliable and consistent.