PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes -Subtractive Color, Cochlea, Complex Differential Form

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Medical model: proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behaviour as a disease. Medical concepts such as diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis have proven valuable in the treatment and study of abnormality. Etiology: refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis: a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Antonyms such as normal versus abnormal and mental health versus mental illness imply that people can be divided neatly into two distinct groups: those who are normal and those who are not. Stereotypes of psychological disorders: they are incurable, people with them are often violent and dangerous, they behave in bizarre ways and are very different from normal people. Epidemiology: the study of the distribution of mental or physical disorders in a population. Prevalence: refers to the percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period. Anxiety disorders: a class of disorders marked by feelings of excessive apprehension and anxiety.