Psychology 1000 Study Guide - Final Guide: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Ronald R Holden

Document Summary

Expectations of the culture in which a person currently lives. Harmfulness, suffering, and impairment: abnormal behavior: behavior that"s personally distressing, dysfunctional, and/or so culturally deviant that other people judge it as inappropriate or maladaptive, distressing, dysfunctional, & deviant, three components to abnormal definition: Distress: feeling anxiety, depression, etc especially if the person has no control over the reactions: not necessary (or sufficient), though. Dysfunction: interferes with person"s life or others" (society: e. g. depression interferes with daily life (work, experiencing satisfying relationships) Deviance: violates societal norms especially if it cannot be attributed to environmental. Historical perspectives: supernatural explanations, abnormal behavior is caused by supernatural forces and attributed deviance to the work of the devil . Ancient chinese, egyptians, hebrews: notion was that bizarre behaviour reflected on evil spirit"s attempt to escape from a person"s body. Witch hunts & diagnostic tests bind a woman"s hand & feet, and throw her into a lake.