PSYC 3140 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Twin, Phallic Stage, Genital Stage
27 Feb 2013
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Unusualness: criterion for abnormality that suggest that abnormal behaviours are rare or unexpected, criterion for abnormality that suggest that only behaviours that cause a person great distress should. Mental illness view) to having a medical disease. General paresis: disease that leads to paralysis, insanity, and eventually death; discovery of the disease helped establish a connection between biological diseases and mental disorders. Marriage and family therapists interfering with their well being. Social approach: approach to abnormality that focuses on interpersonal relationships, culture, society, and the environment as possible causes of abnormality. Vulnerability-stress models: comprehensive models of the many factors that lead some people to develop a given mental disorder. Pituitary: process in which a sending neuron reabsorbs some of the neurotransmitter in the synapse, decreasing the amount left in the synapse. Degradation: process in which a receiving neuron releases an enzyme into the synapse, breaking down neurotransmitters into other biochemicals. Dizygotic (dz) twins: share 50% of their genes (fraternal)
