A PSY 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Maladaptation, Psychopathology, Midbrain
10 May 2020
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Adaptational failure: failure to master or progress in accomplishing developmental milestones. Differ from children their own age on some aspect of normal development. Stable adaptation: start out well adjusted, end up well adjusted. Stable maladaptation: start out poorly, end up poorly. Reversal of maladaptation: start out poorly, end up doing well. Decline of adaptation: start out well, end up poorly. Temporal maladaptation: start out well, temporary poor phase but end up well. Multifinality: similar early experiences lead to different outcomes (pg. Equifinality: different factors lead to a similar outcome. Variables that precede a negative outcome and increase the chances that the outcome will occur. Typically involved acute, stressful situations, as well as chronic adversity. Known risk factors include: community violence and disaster, divorce/family break-up, poverty, homelessness, parental inadequacies, parental psychopathology, parietal stress. The ability to avoid negative outcomes despite being at risk for psychopathology.
