PSY 240 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Autonomic Nervous System, Alprazolam, Factitious Disorder
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Chapter 1: abnormal behavior in historical context: know the definition of psychopathology (abnormal psychology) and all its parts. Psychological disorder/abnormal behavior is 1) a psychological dysfunction within an individual that is 2) associated with distress or impairment in functioning and 3) a response that is not typical or culturally expected. Psychological dysfunction- a breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning. Just having a dysfunction is not enough to meet the criteria for a psychological disorder. No one criterion has yet been developed that fully defines abnormality, so knowing where to draw the line between normal and abnormal dysfunction is often difficult. Emotion contagion- phenomenon in which the experience of an emotion seems to spread to those around us (ex. someone starts freaking out and eventually everyone is freaking out) Mob psychology- people are suggestible when they"re in states of high emotion (when one person identifies a. Cause of the problem, others will assume their own reaction has the same source)
