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