PSY 1102 Study Guide - Common Cold, Histrionic Personality Disorder, Observational Learning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Defining psychological disorders: psychological disorder deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional behaviour patterns, standards for deviant behaviour vary by context, culture, and time, there is controversy over adhd; homosexuality is no longer considered a, to be considered disordered, deviant behaviour usually causes the person disorder. distress, deviant and distressful behaviours are more likely to be considered disordered when also judged to be a harmful dysfunction, dysfunction is key to defining a disorder. 1: his treatment was to replace brutality with gentleness, isolation with activity, and filth with clean air and sunshine. impetus for further reform, the discovery that syphilis infects the brain and distorts the mind provided the, medical model the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in a hospital, this perspective has gained credibility by discoveries that genetically influenced abnormalities and biochemistry contribute to many disorders.