PSYCH 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Laxative, Lust Control, Refrigerator Mother Theory

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1100
• Professor: Victoria Chavez

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Mental illness: syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance and individuals cognition, emotion regulation or behavior that reflects dysfunction in the psychological, biological or development processes underlying mental functioning. Medical students syndrome: tendency for students to perceive themselves to be experiencing or having the symptoms of an illness that they are studying. Stigma: a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quality or person. Abnormal psychology: the study of psychological disorders. Abnormal behavior: unusual, distressing, and harmful to self and others. Comorbid: two or disorders of the same individual. The diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm five): a system for classification of psychological disorders published by the american psychological association. Various perspectives have a great deal to say about disorders. Diathesis stress model: a person may be predisposed for a psychological disorder that remains. Rule of thumb: almost always combo of jeans and environment psychological disorder unexpressed until triggered by stress.