PSYC 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 47-48: Explanatory Style, Learned Helplessness, Mania

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Overview of psychological disorders definition and anxiety disorders: problems- if you cannot stop (uncontrollable) Psychological disorder: deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviours. How we define psychological disorders: deviates from socio-cultural norms (normal, dysfunctional or dangerous, causes (emotional) distress, patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviour that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional. Whether a behaviour varies from normality depends on the situation in which the behaviour occurs. Situational differences in normality are typically reflected in broader cultural differences. Psychological processes are fundamentally shaped by experience, cultural experiences shape even basic psychological processes such as perception. Assumes that the best way to find the treatment is to understand what is causing the deviant/dysfunctional/distressing thoughts and behaviour. Psychological disorders can be seen as psychopathology (an illness) Using lable based on a collection of symptoms that tend to go together. Treatment (psychotherapy, psychopharmacology) with a gial of restoring mental health will be provided. Biological influences: individual genes brain structures and chemistry.