01:830:340 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Twin, Anaplastic Lymphoma Kinase, Confounding
7 Feb 2017
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What can we consider what is abnormal and what isn"t. (we shouldn"t label them as crazy ) This woman danced for four days non-stop, then had 30 people join her, then 400 people join in. They were serious (some people died from heart attacks and exhaustion) This was considered what we call now mass hysteria . Pseudocyesis: they actually believe that they are pregnant. ( ) woman usually had a baby miscarried. The person"s brain releases oxytocin, and other hormones that make the belly bloat, have labor, but no baby. Behavioral, psychological or biological dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with present distress and impairment in functioning, or increased risk of suffering, death, pain, or impairment. Odd or unusual behavior that was thought by the catholic church to have developed from the work of the devil or evil spirits.
