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| Behavior that causes people to experience distress and prevents them from functioning in their daily lives |
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| What behaviors cause people to experience distress and prevents them from functioning in their daily lives |
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As deviation from the average
As deviation from the ideal
As a sense of personal discomfort
As the inability to function effectively
As a legal concept
Often considered as an impairment in social and/or occupational functioning |
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| What are the 6 Perspectives on Abnormality |
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| Medical Perspective, Behavioral, Cognitive, Humanistic, Sociocultural, Psychoanalytic |
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| Define Medical Perspective on Abnormality |
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Suggests that when an individual displays symptoms of abnormal behavior, the fundamental cause will be found through a physical examination of the individual:
Hormonal imbalance
Chemical deficiency
Brain injury
Could a psychological trauma cause a HI or a CD? |
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| Define Behavioral Perspective on Abnormality |
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The behavior itself is the problem
Uses basic principles of learning |
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| Define Cognitive Perspective on Abnormality |
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| Assumes that cognitions (thoughts and beliefs) are central to a person’s abnormal behavior |
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| Define Humanistic Perspective on Abnormality |
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Concentrates on the view of people as basically rational, oriented toward a social world, and motivated to seek self-actualization
Carl Rogers and Abraham Maslow |
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| Define Sociocultural Perspective on Abnormality |
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Assumes that people’s behavior is shaped by the kind of family group, society, and culture in which they live
Culture may cause or support abnormal behaviors |
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| Define Psychoanalytic Perspective on Abnormality |
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Abnormal behavior stems from childhood conflicts over opposing wishes regarding sex and aggression
Freud
Emotional deprivation in infancy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvdOe10vrs4&feature=related
This looks at the root cause while other perspectives merely focus on and treat the symptoms. If the symptoms are treated without addressing the root cause will new maladaptive behaviors not arise? |
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| What are Freud’s 5 PsychoSexual stages |
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Oral stage
Anal stage
Phallic stage
Latency period
Genital stage |
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Raw, unorganized, inborn part of personality
Holds primitive drives
Pleasure principle |
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Strives to balance the desires of the id and the realities of the objective, outside world
Reality principle
“Executive” of personality |
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Represents the rights and the wrongs of society as taught and modeled by one’s parents, teachers, and other significant individuals
Includes the conscience |
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| What happens and is the importance durring the Developing Personality: the Psychosexual Stages? |
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Developing Personality: Psychosexual Stages
Individuals encounter conflicts between the demands of society and their own sexual urges
Failure to resolve conflicts at any stage can result in fixation |
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| Explain the Oral stage and age that it happens |
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Birth to 12-18 months,
Baby’s mouth is focal point of pleasure
Weaning is main conflict
Fixation could include:
Eating
Talking
Smoking
Other oral interests |
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| Explain the Anal stage and age that it happens |
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12-18 months to 3 years,
Major source of pleasure is the anal region
Children obtain pleasure from both retention and expulsion of feces
Fixation may result in:
Rigidity
Orderliness
Punctuality
Disorderliness
Sloppiness |
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