PY - Psychology PY 100S Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Barnum Effect, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder

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The barnum effect: a little something for everyone. Patterns of thought, emotion and behavior that are: Deviates from what most people do: peeing on the street, washing hands 100+ times a day. Ex: people who stand too close during conversations: bathe infrequently. Suggest that behaviors that cause distress are abnormal. Makes people the judges of their own normality. However: can be distressed about things that are not disorders, some might not be distressed about serious psychological problems. Sees abnormality as including patterns of thought, behavior and emotion that lead to suffering and impair functioning as expected within that culture. Isolate and humiliate the insane: treatments consisted of: physical restraints, bleeding of excess blood, induced vomiting. Psychopathology is a combination and interaction of three factors: Sociocultural context: biological factors, medical model, aka the neurobiological model, psychological factors, psychological processes contribute to disorders, models based on different theories, psychodynamic, social cognitive, phenomenological, sociocultural factors, culture-general disorders, culture-specific disorders, diathesis-stress model.

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