Abnormal Psych 1

Abnormal Psyc hology by Tanner Babb

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What is Abnormal Psychology?
The scientific study of abnormal behavior in an effort to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning
Most of the definitions of Abnormal Psychology have 4 features in common, what are they?
Deviant, distressing, dysfunctional, and dangerous
When are behavior, thoughts, and emotions deemed abnormal?
When they differ markedly from a society’s ideas about proper functioning
What is dysfunctional behavior?
Behavior that interferes with daily living
What is dangerous behavior?
Behavior that is consistenly careless, hostile, or confused.
What is treatment or therapy?
A procedure designed to change abnormal behavior in to more normal behavior
What are 3 essential features that all forms of therapy have
A sufferer, a healer, and a series of contacts
What percent of adults, and what percent of children and adolescents in the United States display serious psychological disturbances and are in need of clinical treatment?
30%of adults, and 19% of the children and adolescents
What is trephination?
An operation in which a stone instrument, or trephine, was used to cut away a circular section of the skull
What are asylums?
Institutions whose primary purpose was to care for people with mental illness
What is a somatogenic perspective?
The view that abnormal psychological functioning has physical causes
What is the psychogenic perspective?
The view that the chief causes of abnormal fucntioning are psychological
What are psychotropic medications?
Drugs that primarily affect the brain and alleviate many symptoms of mental dysfunctioning
What are schizophrenogenic mothers?
Women that were believed to cause schizophrenia in their children by being controlling, domineering, and unresponsive to their children's needs
What is a lobotomy?
A procedure where a pointed instrument was inserted into the frontal lobe of the brain and rotated, destroying a considerable amount of brain tissue