PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: General Paresis Of The Insane, Paresis, Trepanning
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Psychopathology: field concerned with the nature and development of abnormal behaviour, thoughts and feelings. Abnormality is usually determined by the presence of several characteristics at one time. Abnormal behaviour: characteristics as statistical infrequency, violation of norms, personal distress, disability and unexpectedness. Behaviour is abnormal if it creates great distress and torment in the person experiencing it. Disability can be the impairment in some important area of life (work or personal relationships. Abnormal/unexpected responses to environmental stressors (anxiety disorder is diagnosed when the anxiety is unexpecfted and out of person who is well off constantly worries about proportion to the situation; as their financial situation) Normal curve: (statistical infrequency) places the majority of people in the middle as far as any particular characteristic is concerned; very few people fall at either extremes. (figure 1. 1 on page 3) Statistical infrequency is used explicitly in diagnosing mental retardation.
