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    Abnormal psychology is the scientific study of abnormal behavior to understand, describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. It examines what is considered abnormal using the 4 D's: deviance from social norms, distress, dysfunction, and danger. However, definitions of abnormality are not always consistently applied and criteria can be vague. Throughout history, abnormality was viewed through supernatural, ancient, Greek/Roman, and medieval lenses and treated using practices like trephination, exorcism, and confession of sins. The modern field rejects supernatural causes and examines abnormality from somatogenic and psychogenic perspectives.

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    Abnormal psychology is the scientific study of abnormal behavior to understand, describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. It examines what is considered abnormal using the 4 D's: deviance from social norms, distress, dysfunction, and danger. However, definitions of abnormality are not always consistently applied and criteria can be vague. Throughout history, abnormality was viewed through supernatural, ancient, Greek/Roman, and medieval lenses and treated using practices like trephination, exorcism, and confession of sins. The modern field rejects supernatural causes and examines abnormality from somatogenic and psychogenic perspectives.

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    Abnormal psychology is the scientific study of abnormal behavior to understand, describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning. It examines what is considered abnormal using the 4 D's: deviance from social norms, distress, dysfunction, and danger. However, definitions of abnormality are not always consistently applied and criteria can be vague. Throughout history, abnormality was viewed through supernatural, ancient, Greek/Roman, and medieval lenses and treated using practices like trephination, exorcism, and confession of sins. The modern field rejects supernatural causes and examines abnormality from somatogenic and psychogenic perspectives.

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    Abnormal psychology

    - Anything that is different from normal


    - Scientific study of abnormal behavior to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal
    patterns of functioning
    - What is abnormal?
    o The 4 Ds
     Deviance
     Examples
    o culturally (eye contact
    o Time
    o Age
     Distress
     Dysfunction
     Danger
    - even if psychological abnormality is a valid concept
    o defintions aren’t applies consistently
    o criteria often vague
    o categories not clear out
    - the elusive nature of abnormality
    o even if psychological abnormality is valid conceot
    how was abnormality viewed and treated in the past

    anciet views and treatments


    - supernatural causes
    - treatment
    o trephination
    o exorcism
    o confessing sin
    Greek and roman views and treatment
    Philsophers and physicans began to reject supernatural causes
    Hippocrates believed illnesses

    500-1350 AD

    Two different perspectives


    1. somatogenic
    a. abnormal functionin has pyschcal effects
    b. psychically
    2. psychogenic

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