PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Explanatory Style, Observational Learning, Learned Helplessness

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

The medical model: proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease this includes mental illness, psychological disorder, and psychopathy. This gradually became the dominant way of thinking about abnormal behaviour during the 18th and 19th. Before the 18th century, most conceptions of abnormal behaviour were based on superstition. Their disorders were treated with chants, rituals, and exoticisms. They were seen as dangerous therefore were chained, put in dungeons, tortured and put to death. Medical model bought more sympathy and less hatred and fear. Etiology: refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis: a forecast about the probable course of an illness. A sound system for classifying psychological disorders can facilitate empirical research and enhance communication among scientists and clinicians. The current 4th edition released in 1994, made us of intervening research to refine the criteria introduced in dsm-iii.