Back to category: Science Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. abnormal psyc terms CHAPTER 1 · Personal and cultural points of view come into conflict to cause abnormal behavior. · Myth of mental illness: notion that rather than reflecting mental illness, abnormal behavior is simply different or wrong or a reasonable response to an unreasonable situation. · Theorists believe that abnormal behavior is due to something wrong with society. · It was originally believed that abnormal behavior was caused by evil or the devil. · Look at diagram attached. (1.1) · Trephination: a procedure in which holes are dilled in the skull; thought to be used by Stone Age people to release the evil spirits that cause abnormal behavior · Exorcism: a treatment for mental illness that involves driving out the devil or evil spirits thought to cause disorder. · Hippocrates: an early Greek physician who proposed that abnormal behaviors resulted from the imbalance of humors (fluids) in the body. · Humors: fluids in the body, whose imbalan... Posted by: Anthony Pacella Limited version - please login or register to view the entire paper. |
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