Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Catatonia, Learned Helplessness, Psychophysiology

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Wolfe/ Quinlan

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The demonological view: abnormal behaviour was claimed to be work of the devil, procedure called trephination drilled hole in skull to release evil spirits. Psychological perspectives: vulnerability-stress model everyone has some degree of vulnerability to developing a disorder. Vulnerability can have biological basis, brain malfunction, or hormonal factor. Can also arise from personality factors such as low self-esteem. Vulnerability often only causes disorder when a stressor combines with it to trigger the appearance of the disorder. What is abnormal : three criteria seem to govern decisions about abnormality: Distressing we are likely to label behaviours abnormal if they intensely distress an individual. Dysfunctional most behaviours that are abnormal are dysfunctional for the individual or society. Deviance abnormality of a behaviour is based on society"s judgments of the deviance of it: abnormal behaviour behaviour that is personally distressful, personally dysfunctional, and/or culturally deviant. Allows diagnostic information to be represented along five dimensions: Axis i person"s primary clinical symptoms.