Abnormality

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the study of abnormal behavior and psychological dysfunction.

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Psychopathology

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the social or environmental setting of a person’s behavior.

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Situational Context

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emotional distress or emotional pain.

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Subjective Discomfort

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anything that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life.

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Maladaptive

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any pattern of behavior or thinking that causes people significant distress, causes them to harm others, or harms their ability to function in daily life.

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Psychological Disorder

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model of explaining thinking or behavior as caused by biological changes in the chemical, structural, or genetic systems of the body.

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Biological Model

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psychologists who study the way people think, remember, and mentally organize information.

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Cognitive Psychologists

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perspective that focuses on the relationship between social behavior and culture; in psychopathology, perspective in which abnormal thinking and behavior (as well as normal) is seen as the product of learning and shaping within the context of the family, the social group to which one belongs, and the culture within which the family and social group exist.

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Sociocultural Perspective

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the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which behavior takes place.

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Cultural Relativity

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sets of particular symptoms of distress found in particular cultures, which may or may not be recognized as an illness within the culture.

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Cultural Syndromes

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perspective in which abnormal thinking or behavior is seen as the result of the combined and interacting forces of biological, psychological, social, and cultural influences.

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Biopsychosocial Model