PSYC 3082 : Exam 1 Study Guide
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Exam 1 study guide: understand what a psychological disorder is. Behavioral, psychological, or biological dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with present distress and/or impairment in functioning, or increased risk of suffering, death, pain, or impairment. Impairment, distress, dysfunction, statistical deviance and cultural inappropriateness factor into the definition of a psychological disorder: distress is normal in some situations, dysfunctional distress occurs when person is much more distressed than others would be. Requires a broad approach, multiple interactive influences (bio, psych, and social factors) large scientific emphasis: components of multi-dimensional integrative model discussed in class: Mass hysteria, saint vitus"s dance/tarantism, moon and stars (paracelsus: hippocrates and etiology, wandering uterus, linked to chemical imbalances. Electric shock, surgery, insulin, major and minor traqs. Kraepelin: moral therapy to treat patients as normally as possible. Pinel and pussin say patients shouldn"t be restrained. Dix led the mental hygiene movement: biopsychosocial model, freud"s major contributions (i. e. , id, ego, superego)
