PSY 352- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 93 pages long!)
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Study guide: abnormal psychology is the scientific study of human behavior that is rare, unusual, Thursday 8/31/17 bizarre, distressing, harmful, or maladaptive: soporific inducing or tending to induce sleep. In many cases, the manifestations (symptoms, presentations) of mental illness are the same across cultures. If you"ve been diagnosed with one, it"s likely you could have the other: practical definitions, discomfort: physical/psychological pain or distress. Deviant" holds negative connotation; implies danger/insecurity: bizarre deviant from a definitional standard and they hold vastly different connotations, dysfunction: inability/loss of ability to perform one"s normal roles. Interference of mental capabilities; things that get in your way from doing what you want to do. It"s not always or never inappropriate but the context is important; what are the pragmatic concerns. If yes, then the condition might be irrelevant. On being sane in insane places : what behaviors would you expect to find in this place (referring to a mental institution)
