PSYC 270 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Anorexia Nervosa, Pancreatic Cancer, Schizophrenia
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Definition: a psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment in functioning that is not typical or culturally expected: psychological dysfunction: a breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning, example: schizophrenia. Distress or impairment: distress: behavior or feelings that cause the person pain or other persons pain, not all psychological disorders produce distress, not all forms of distress indicate a psychological disorder. Taking a test: some distresses encounter willingly: Bulimia: presence of a disability does not necessarily indicate a psychological disorder. Atypical or not culturally expected: what constitutes a psychological d/o depends on a societies cultural values, hearing voices, abnormal behavior may be expressed differently in different cultures, cultural bound disorders. Anorexia nervosa: certain behaviors are almost universally considered to be indicators of psychological disorders. Three modern theories: biological, psychodynamic, behavioral/ cognitive- behavioral. Introduction: there are biological causes of psychological disorders such as. Brain dysfunction: views psychological disorders as diseases, history of biological theory of psychological disorders, syphilis.
