PSYA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14-15: Psychogenic Amnesia, Adrenal Gland, Bipolar Ii Disorder
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A culture"s adaptive change to recurrent, ever changing environmental pressures. Cultural evolution shapes lifestyle, the aggregate behaviour of a person the way the person chooses. Lifestyle has changed significantly, civilization enhances standards of living, but also introduces to life their life new challenges and dangers. Heart rate increases, blood pressure rises, blood sugar rises, blood flow directed to internal. Imagery rehearsal over progressively more difficult situations. Lecture 18 - classification and diagnosis of mental disorders. Thus, abnormal psychology is associated with: problems that make it hard for them to adapt to society. = anything that deviates from the norm. There are different types of perspectives on mental disorders. When psychic conflict is too strong for defence mechanisms to deal with in healthy ways, they may actually distort one"s perception of reality or the person will function in ways reflective of an early developmental stage. This can lead to psychological disorders that include:
