PSY 205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Aversion Therapy, Systematic Desensitization

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: S. Houck

Document Summary

Common stereotypes: people with psychological disorders are often violent and dangerous. , people with psychological disorders behave in bizarre ways and are very different from normal people. , psychological disorders are incurable. 3 elements of abnormality: abnormality exists on a continuum, 1. Road map: lecture topics, anxiety disorders (phobias, ocd, ptsd, schizophrenia, personality disorders (antisocial, behavior therapy (systematic desensitization, aversion therapy) & cognitive-behavioral therapy. Recitation topics: dissociative disorders, depressive and bipolar disorders, biomedical therapies. Anxiety disorders: (1) specific phobia: persistent & irrational fear of an object or situation that presents no realistic danger, prevalence ~ 10, women 2: men 1. Treatments for ocd: medication, behavioral therapies, aversion therapy, unwanted behavior is paired with an unpleasant stimulus, examples , exposure & response prevention, cognitive-behavioral therapy (cbt) Personality disorders: marked by extreme, inflexible personality traits that cause personal distress or impaired functioning, antisocial (lecture + text), borderline (text), narcissistic (text), & histrionic (text.