PSYC 2030U Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Mind Control, Dementia Praecox, Psychology
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Abnormal psychology: deals with description, causes and treatment of abnormal behaviour patterns. Psychological disorder: abnormal behaviour pattern involving disturbance of psychological function or behaviour. Statistical infrequency: behaviour that occurs rarely or infrequently. Unexpectedness: surprising or out-of-proportion response to environmental stressors can be considered abnormal (eg. expected to be sad when someone dies not laugh). Violation of norms: behaviour that defies/goes against social norms threatens or makes those observing anxious. Cultural bases of abnormal behaviour: behaviour in one culture may be deemed abnormal in another. Personal distress: behaviour that creates personal suffering, distress or torment in the person. Disability or dysfunction: behaviour that causes impairment in some important area of life (work, personal relationships). Samuel cartwright: drapetomania: fligh-from-home mania presumably irrational urge to run away from slavery in pursuit of freedom, dysesthesia aethiopica: when a slave engaged in destroying his/owners property, disobedience, fighting with master, refusing to comply with work demands.
