PSYB30H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Paranoid Personality Disorder, Superficial Charm
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Abnormal psychology: the study of the various mental disorders. Abnormal: this term is based on current levels of societal tolerance. In this sense, behaviors that society deems unacceptable would be labelled abnormal. But tolerance levels can change over time, thus ps(cid:455)(cid:272)hologists ha(cid:448)e sta(cid:396)ted di(cid:396)e(cid:272)ti(cid:374)g thei(cid:396) att(cid:374). to people(cid:859)s su(cid:271)je(cid:272)ti(cid:448)e (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s a(cid:374)d experiences. Psychopathology: the study of mental disorders that combine statistical, social, and psychological approaches to diagnosing individual abnormality. Categorical view: the dominant approach to viewing personality disorders in distinct categories. There is a qualitative distinction made in which people who have a disorder are in one category, whereas people w/o the disorder are in another. Dimensional view: the dimensional view approaches a pd as a continuum that ranges from normality at one end to severe disability and disturbance at the other end. People w/ and w/o the disorder differ in degree only. Eye-blink startle method: people typically blink when they are startled by a loud noise.
