ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGICAL DISORDERS
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biologically based, unconsciously motivated, aggressive, and difficult to change
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maladaptive, causing emotional discomfort, socially unaccaptable, and atypical
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prejudice, unconsciously motivated, fake, and insane
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selfish, habitual, and avoidable
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Detailed explanation-1: -A psychological disorder is an ongoing dysfunctional pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior that causes significant distress and that is considered deviant in that person’s culture or society. According to the bio-psycho-social model, psychological disorders have biological, psychological, and social causes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Criteria for defining psychological disorders depend on whether cultural norms are violated, whether behavior is maladaptive or harmful, and whether there is distress. The medical model describes and explains psychological disorders as if they are diseases.
Detailed explanation-3: -Psychologists often classify behavior as abnormal using 4 D’s: deviance, distress, dysfunction, and danger.
Detailed explanation-4: -Mental illnesses are health conditions involving changes in emotion, thinking or behavior (or a combination of these).