PSYC 3082 Lecture : PSYC3082 Lecture 1
Document Summary
Chapter outline: understanding psychopathology, the supernatural tradition, the biological tradition, the psychological tradition, the present: the scientific method and an integrative approach. A psychological dysfunction within an individual associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected: no one criterion has yet been developed that fully defines abnormality. What is a psychological disorder: psychological dysfunction, breakdown in function, cognitive behavioral emotional, considered to be on a continuum not enough to meet criteria for a psychological disorder extreme expressions. What is a psychological disorder: response is atypical or not culturally expected, deviations from average - depression when something bad happens to them. For a few days is normal, but weeks is abnormal: violation of social norms. What is a psychological disorder: picture- it has to be some sort of combo of these three criteria to be a disorder. Rachel has been caught urinating in the corner of her bedroom.
