Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Reinforcement

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Abnormal behaviour: behaviour that"s personally distressing, dysfunctional, and/or so culturally deviant that other people judge it as inappropriate or maladaptive. 1) distress: feeling anxiety, depression, etc- especially if the person has no control over the reactions. Not enough for a diagnosis of a mental disorder. 2) dysfunction: interferes with person"s life or others" (society)- eg depression interferes with daily life (work, experiencing satisfying relationships) 3) deviance: violates societal norms- especially if it cannot be attributed to environmental causes. Deviance was seen as the work of evil. Supernatural explanations: treatment in some cultures was trephination. Trephination: make a hole in the patient (while they were alive) so the spirit could escape, releasing the evil spirit . Demonological models: disturbed people were either involuntarily possessed by the devil, or made a dark pact. Witch hunts went on, to determine innocence they would tie the persons arms behind their back and throw them into the ocean.