PSYC1002 Final: PSYC1002 (Everything you need)
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Abnormal psychology is the scientific study of abnormal behaviour. Use empirical method to study (description, causation, treatment). Abnormal is unusual or deviant behaviour that causes distress and is often unacceptable in the culture. Neither one on its own is necessary or sufficient. Psychological abnormality is not as readily definable as physical illness. The definition of abnormal often reflects culture values and social norms. Supernatural: caused by spirits, stars, moon or past lives and treated with exorcism, prayer: oldest and currently most dominant model in psychiatry. Psychological: caused by beliefs, perceptions, values, goals, motivation. The integrative approach says that psychopathology is multiply determined. One-dimensional accounts of psychopathology are incomplete; consider reciprocal relations between biological, psychological, sociocultural factors (i. e. nature and nurture). Psychoanalytic: emerges from the repression of unresolved conflict, treated with insight, most dominant model during first half of the 20th century.
