Abnormal Behavior
Behavioral, emotional, or cognitive dysfunctions that are unexpected in their cultural context and associated with personal distress or substantial impairment in functioning.
What is the DSM-IV-TR definition of abnormal behavior?
An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment
What are personality disorders?
Historically linked to medicine. Abnormal behavior is pathological and classified on the basis of symptoms.
What are biological approaches to treatment?
Event or circumstance that produce threats to our well-being
What is a stressor?
Efforts to control, reduce, or learn to tolerate the threats that lead to stress
What is coping?
Behavior is abnormal if it is statistically infrequent. Deviates significantly from the average/is above the "cutoff point"
What is statistic deviation from the norm?
The amygdala is activated when exposed to a fearful object or event.
What is a biological theory for phobias?
ABCDEF helps restructure a person's belief system into a more realistic, rational, and logical set of views by challenging dysfunctional beliefs that maintain irrational behavior.
What is rational-emotive behavior therapy?
Standing in a long line at a supermarket.
What is a background stressor?
Coping with anxiety and sadness after receiving a bad grade by performing meditative activities and strategies.
What is emotion-focused coping?
Some factors that may affect nervous system functioning include genetics, toxicity, infection/disease, injury, and stress.
What is the biological model of abnormality?
When people feel that they have no control over their environments. More likely to develop depression.
What is learned helplessness?
Therapy helps clients accept the difference between their ideal self and their actual experiences through the use of unconditional positive regard.
What is client-centered/person-centered therapy?
Homeostasis, alarm, resistance, and exhaustion.
What are the stages of Selye's General Adaptation Syndrome?
Approach stress optimistically and take direct action to learn about and deal with stressor to change stressful events into less threatening ones.
What is hardiness coping style?
Abnormal behavior is the consequence of learning from the environment. Normal and abnormal behaviors are learned through classical conditioning, operant conditioning, and/or social learning.
What is the behavioral model of abnormality?
Serotonin and noradrenaline are to major depressive disorder as dopamine is to ____.
What is schizophrenia?
Focus on changing dysfunctional thought patterns and detailed analysis of the problem behavior/environmental events associated with it.
What is cognitive-behavioral treatment?
High blood pressure, headaches, skin rashes, preventing people from adequately coping, negative/clouded view of the world, and extreme emotional responses.
What are the psychophysiological symptoms of stress?
Ability to withstand, overcome, and eventually thrive after profound adversity
What is resilience coping style?
Conflicts of the psychic structures of the mind can lead to either a neurotic psyche or a psychotic psyche.
What is the psychodynamic model of abnormality?
Diminution or loss of normal functions.
What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?
Technique in which the client is encouraged to say whatever comes to mind to "reveal" the unconscious processes of the client.
What is free association?
Long-lasting effects of catastrophes or personal stressors that may include re-experiencing the event in vivid flashbacks or dreams.
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
Attempts to modify the stressful problem or source of stress
What is problem-focused coping?