PSY100Y5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Major Depressive Episode, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Criteria of abnormal behaviour: deviance: people are often said to have a disorder if their behaviour deviates from what their society considers acceptable (ex. Chapter 14: psychological disorders: most common psychological disorders are: substance-use, anxiety and mood disorders. Anxiety disorders: class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety, five principal types: generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorder, panic disorder and agoraphobia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic disorder (these are not mutually-exclusive) Cognitive factors: theorists maintain that certain styles of thinking make people more vulnerable to anxiety disorders, vulnerability because they tend to, misinterpret harmless situations as threatening, focus excessive attention on perceived threats, selectively recall information that seems threatening. Stress: there is reason to believe that high stress often help to precipitate the onset of anxiety disorders. Dissociative disorders: a class of disorders in which people lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity.
