Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Reinforcement, Learned Helplessness, Stage Fright

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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22% of ppl have a diagnosable mental disorder. 5th century bc: hippocrates suggested mental illness is the same as physical disorders. People with disordered behaviour were sick not possessed by evil. Site of mental illness is the brain general paresis: mental deterioration and bizarre behaviour caused by syphilis first demonstration that a psychological disorder was linked to a physical sickness. Behavioural: disordered behaviours are learned responses that are learned through classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and modeling, think about how environmental factors influence abnormal behaviour. Humanistic: views abnormality as the result of environmental forces that frustrate or pervert people"s self-actualization tendencies and their search for meaning in life. What is abnormal: abnormality: a social construction affected by value judgments and political agenda, drapetomania: an obsessive desire for freedom that drove slaves to try more than twice to escape. If experience becomes incongruent with the self-concept that it arouses severe threat, a breakdown may occur.