PSYC3102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Intellectual Disability, Dementia Praecox, Apperception
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Incidence the rate at which new cases occur in a population during a specified period. Prevalence proportion of a population that is affected by the disease as a specified time. Abnormal psychology the scientific study of behaviour with the objectives of describing, explaining, predicting and controlling behaviours that are considered strange or unusual. Views of abnormality relativists (symptoms and causes of a disorder vary across cultures), absolutists (a disorder is caused by the same biological factors in all cultures), no clear cut definitions of abnormality. Elements of abnormality personal suffering, maladaptiveness, irrationality and incomprehensibility, unpredictability and loss of control, vividness and unconventionality (deviations from the norm), observer discomfort, violations of moral and ideal standards. Mental disorders involve one or all of the following present distress, disability (impairment in one or more areas of functioning), sig risk of suffering death, pain, disability or an important loss of freedom.
