PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 47: Nurse Practitioner, Taijin Kyofusho, David Rosenhan
28 Dec 2017
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Psychological disorder: deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. (p. 626) attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (adhd): a psychological disorder marked by the appearance by age 7 of one or more of. 3 key symptoms: extreme inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity. (p. 627) A lawyer is distressed by feeling the need to wash his hands 100 times a day. He has no time left to meet with clients, and his colleagues are wondering about his competence. His behavior would probably be labeled disordered, because he is (1) distressed about his behavior, and it is also (2) _____________ from the behaviors of those around him, and (3) _____________-interfering with his day-to-day life. deviant; dysfunctional medical model: the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital. (p. 628)
