PSYC 300 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Psychophysiology, Anxiety Disorder, Effect Size
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Abnormal psychology can be found: surrounding us, closer to home. To understand mental disorder, we must: have compassion, ask the kind of questions that will enable us to help the patients, rely on research to choose most effective treatment. There is no universality about what is meant by abnormality or disorder. There is however an agreement on which conditions are disorder and what is not. The areas to be considered as a form of mental disorder (patient must have more than one are): suffering psychological pain. Not a sufficient condition or a necessary: maladaptiveness an indicator for abnormal. Behaviour is maladaptive for the condition. society. violation: statistical deviancy intellectual disability is considered to reflect abnormality. If something is rare and undesirable=abnormal, rare and desirable=genius, common and undesirable=rude: violation of the standards of the society depends on the magnitude of the f, social discomfort when someone violates a social rule and people feel uncomfortable.
