Psy. 101
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THE CLASS
What is Psychology?
What is Psychopathology?
Psychology: The scientific study of human behaviour
The fundamental question in Psychological Science
“Why do people behave the way they do?”
“Why do people act, think, feel the way they do?”
How do we answer those questions?
According to the rules of SCIENTIFIC METHOD
What is Psychology?
What is Psychopathology?
Psychopathology: The scientific study of psychological disorders.
The fundamental question in Psychopathology
“Why do people behave in abnormal ways?”
“Why do people act, think, feel abnormally?”
How do we answer those questions?
According to the rules of SCIENTIFIC METHOD
Words Words Words
Mental illness
Psychological disorder
Psychopathology
Any psychological disorder
Psychopathy
One type of psychopathology
Words Words Words
Psychosis
Set of symptoms
Sometimes present
Hallucinations
Visual
Auditory
Tactile
Professional Team
Psychologist (PhD+)
Scientist-Practitioner
Psychiatrist (MD+)
Prescription Drugs
Medical Treatment
Psychoanalyst (MD/PHD++)
Psychoanalysis
Psychiatric Nurse (RN)
Specialist
Psychiatric Social Worker (MSW)
Case management
Family Therapy
Scientist-Practitioner
WorkPlaces
Universities and Colleges
Teaching and Research
Hospitals and Clinics
Private Practice
Assessment
Treatment
Business
Human Resources
Advertising
Schools
Learning Disabilities
Government
Criminal Justice
History of Abnormal Behaviour
“How a particular society reacts to abnormality depends on its values and assumptions about human life and behaviour”
History
Three Traditions/Models
Supernatural
Possession
Medical/Biological
Disease process
Genetics
Psychological/Experience
Learning
Diathesis/Stress
Supernatural Explanations
Supernatural
Demonology
Moon and stars
Prehistoric
-500,000 years
Abnormality was due to divine intervention
Punishment from gods
Curses
Possession
Angry gods
Demons
Personal sin
Stigma: Negative
Ancient Greece
Example
Religion
Oracles at Delphi
-1400
Possession
Predict future
Answer questions
Hallucinogenic gasses!
Biblical -700
Moses warns his people that if they “will not obey the voice of the Lord your God or be careful to do all his commandments and his statutesthe Lord will smite you with madness and blindness and confusion of the mind…(Deuteronomy 28:15, 28)
Job 13:4 physicians comfort mad people
Respect for those who had the “gift of tongues”
Remedy?
Exorcism