Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Anxiety Disorder, Bulimia Nervosa, Pain Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Distress, dysfunction and deviance govern views on abnormality. Dysfunctional for individual or society interfering with ability to work or hold satisfying relationships with others. Deviance violation of the unstated norms of society, especially if violations make others uncomfortable and cannot be attributed to environmental causes. Definition: abnormal behaviour: behaviour that is personally distressing , personally dysfunctional and/or so culturally deviant that other people judge it to be inappropriate or maladaptive. To rid the evil spirit from the body a trephination was performed chiseling a hole 2cm in diameter into the skull typically killed the person. Medieval europe disturbed people either involuntarily was possessed by the devil or voluntarily made a pact with the dark forces. Killing of witches justified used diagnostic tests e. g. tie a women"s hands and feet together and throw her into a lake if she sank and drowned she was pure, if her impurities floated executed.