PSYCO239 Study Guide - Final Guide: Pumpkin Pie Spice, Cherry Picking, Dream Interpretation
16 Dec 2015
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Disorder psychological dysfunction causing distress or impairment an atypical response to situations. A breakdown in function, whether cognitive, behavioral, or emotional. Emphasis on state of distress/impairment, and noticeable socially/culturally atypical responses. Must clearly distinguish disorder from the parameters of common human experience. The three schools of thought are supernatural, biological, and psychological. Biological tradition: hippocrates believed in the imbalance of humours, and advocated draining brain fluid or blood, which, pathetically, was the best idea anyone had for like 2 thousand years. Finally, the psychological tradition slowly crawled out of the primordial soup of scholarly thought. Humanistic theory came from maslow and rogers, ex. the pyramid of human needs. Note: most of the content from this lecture will never be tested, it was intended to serve as a refresher/background information. How other fields of study helped shape psychopathology: Neurotransmitters are important, but disorders don"t hinge entirely on them as the human inclination toward simple answers previously lead neuroscientists to assume.
