PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Learned Helplessness, Osteoporosis, Mood Disorder

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

Document Summary

Old way of thinking: superstition: abnormal people possessed by demons, affiliated with the demon or being punished by god treatment: chants, rituals, exorcisms, etc. Medical model: useful to conceptualize abnormal behaviour as a disease: dominant way of thinking since 18th and 19th century. Early asylum conditions were deplorable, but gradually became more humane. Thomas szasz is opposed to medical model: illness only affects body and not the mind: abnormal behaviour is a deviation from social norms and not an illness. Regardless of debate, medical model has been effective in treating and studying abnormality. Etiology: apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis: forecast about the probable course of an illness. Deviance: behaviour deviates from social norms (varies culture to culture: ex. transvestic festishism: man achieves sexual arousal by dressing in women"s clothing. Maladaptive behaviour: everyday adaptive behaviour is impaired: usually something that interferes with social or occupational functioning, like substance-use disorders.