Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

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

Document Summary

Abnormal behavior behavior that is personally distressing, personally dysfunctional, and/or so culturally deviant that other people just it to be inappropriate or maladaptive. Historical perspectives: the demonological view abnormal behavior is caused by supernatural forces, early biological view mental illnesses are diseases like physical illness that affect that brain, emil kraepelin earliest known psychological laboratory. Tried to induce mild mental disorder in experimental setting using alcohol, fatigue and hunger. As subjects became more impaired or deprived there was an increase in responses to a word association task that bore little or no relationship to the stimulus words. Most important contribution was to try to classify mental disorders into a descriptive system. Based upon notion that if mental disorders could be as accurately diagnosed as physical ones then they could be cured as precisely. Manic-depressive psychosis: periodic alterations of extreme nervous activity and deeply depressed moods.