PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Schizophrenia, Hypochondriasis, Distressing

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Psychoses: conflicts become great and the person withdraws from reality: behavioural perspective: disorders are learned responses, cognitive perspective: disorders are caused from people"s thoughts/perceptions about themselves and their environment, humanistic perspective: disorders are the result of environmental forces that frustrate or prevent people"s inherent self actualization tendencies and search for the meaning of life, socio cultural perspective: disorders are in part caused by the cultural context in which they occur and the cultural factors that influence forms they take, today"s vulnerability stress model: relation between vulnerability and stress. The three d"s govern decisions about abnormality: distressing: to the individual who has little or no control over these reactions, dysfunctional: for the individual or society interfering with a person"s ability to work and experience satisfying relationships (unable to control, deviance: violation of unstated norms that cannot be attributed to environmental causes and if they make others uncomfortable.