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define abnormal psychology
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the scientific and objective approach that describes, explains, predicts, and treats abnormal...
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abnormal functioning/mental disorders are often characterized by? (4 d's)
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Deviant, Distressing, Dysfunctional, Danger
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Explain Deviant behavior
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breaking off the morns of psychological functioning
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What are the words used to describe bad stress?good stress?
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distresseustress
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describe someone who is experiencing distess
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they have bad stress, which is often triggered by a mental illness in which the bad stress...
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describe dysfunctional
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the inability to deal with everyday functioning
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list some ancient beliefs of mental illness
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trephining, demonology, exorcism,
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describe Greco-Roman beliefs of mental illness
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looked for naturalistic explanations. Hippocrates began writing (father of modern medicine)...
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middle ages response to mental illness?
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return to supernatural explanations because it was a time of great stress; began to blame the...
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what is mass madness?
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a large group of people sharing the same absurd beliefs and symptoms
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define tarantism-define lycanthropy-
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"dance mania" people dancing like crazy for days or weeks in the street-belief that one is...
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what is the significance of Pope Innocent VIII
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ordered all clergymen to find and exterminate the witches in a book titled "the Witches Hammel"...
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During the Renaissance what changes were made towards mental illness?
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the idea of witchcraft was challenged by johaun weyer, the promotion of mental patients being...
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Describe the Reform movement and important figures
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-moral treatment movement in the 19th century, approach to treat people with mental illnesses...
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Descriptive the Biological Perspective
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people have mental illness due to chemical imbalance
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