PSY 240 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Anxiety, Major Depressive Disorder, Serotonin

• School: University of Miami
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 240
• Professor: Franklin Foote

Document Summary

Abnormal psychology: what is a disorder, psychological dysfunction, breakdown in, cognition, behavior, emotion, distress or impairment. Response to a death: behavior not controllable by the person, ex. Obsessive compulsive disorder: response is not typical or expected for culture, gender, or age, frequency, degree of deviation from average, eccentricity versus violation of social norms, apa"s definition, behavioral, cognitive, emotional dysfunction, distress, unexpected culturally. In some states they can prescribe medication: marriage and family therapists, ma, ms, mft. Incidence: prevalence = how many people have this disorder. St. vitus" dance in medieval times or tarantism. Importance of contextual factors: diathesis-stress model applied to genes, diathesis = genetic vulnerability, when there is a genetic vulnerability, life events can more easily lead to a disorder, ex. Alcohol abuse diathesis (genetic tendency to become an alcoholic) plus a stressor (long bouts of binge drinking: reciprocal gene-environment model, genes shape how we create our environment, ex.