PSYCH 2367.02 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Anxiety Disorder, Gm Family Ii Engine, Existentialism
13 Mar 2018
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Cognitive: how people interpret information, concerned with internal processes, focuses more on the present state, maladaptive thinking leads to bad behavior. Illogical thinking, faulty assumptions, overgeneralization, bad attitudes, selective perception, magnification all lead to abnormal behavior: went back to mistreatment, humanistic/existential. ** in early times and in the middle ages demons and exorcisms. The theory of the treatment of abnormal mental functioning that emphasizes unconscious psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology. Happened when they discovered antidepressants and anti-anxiety medicine and went from 600,000 patients to 40,000. Models of abnormality: biological, medi(cid:272)al perspe(cid:272)tive psy(cid:272)h abnormalities are caused by something physical in the brain. Focuses on link between brain anatomy and chemistry that goes with abnormal behavior: viruses and genetics. Psychodynamic: behavior is determined by unconscious psychological forces that interact with each other, are dynamic, abnormal behavior happens when the psychological forces conflict with one another to be expressed, deterministic.
