Sociology & Psychology - Deviance

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Disorder

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Deviation from the norm in human behavior

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Thomas Szasz

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Believes mental illness is a myth.

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Samuel Cartwright

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Claimed that slaves running away was due to a mental disorder called drapetomania. Also coined a second disorder that made slaves more "rascally".

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Psychological Disorder

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Harmful dysfunction in which behavior is judged to be atypical, disturbing, maladaptive, and unjustifiable.

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Paradigms

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Biological, Psychoanalytical, sociocultural, behavioral, cognitive, and humanistic.

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Personality Disorders

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Inflexible and enduring patterns of behavior that impairs a person's functioning

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Cluster A - Personality Disorders

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Odd or Eccentric behavior

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Cluster B - Personality Disorders

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Dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior and self-absorption

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Cluster C - Personality Disorders

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anxious fearful behavior, similar to anxiety but earlier onset, no clear cause, stable course of life

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Name 3 Cluster A Disorders

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Schizoid, Schizotypal, and paranoid

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Name a treatment for Cluster A personality disorders.

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social skill training and anti psychotic medication.

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Name a treatment for Cluster B personality disorders.

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Psychotherapy, drugs, and behavioral treatment.

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Name a treatment for Cluster C personality disorders.

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psychotherapy and behavioral treatment.

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Name 3 Cluster C personality disorders.

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avoidant, obsessive, and compulsive.

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Name 4 Cluster B Personality Disorders.

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Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic.

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Avoidant Personality Disorder

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sensitivity to rejection that results in being withdrawn

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Schizoid Personality Disorder

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expresses eccentric behaviors such as social disengagement

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Histrionic Personality Disorder

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Displays shallow, attention getting emotions and goes to great lengths to gain praise and reassurance from others

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Narcissistic Personality Disorder

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exaggerate their own importance

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Borderline Personality Disorder

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unstable identity, relationships, and emotions

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Antisocial Personality Disorder

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socio or psychopath, exhibits a lack or conscience or wrong doing

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Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

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preoccupation with order and control

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Paranoid Personality Disorder

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Interpreting actions of others as deliberately threatening or demeaning

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Impulse Control Disorder

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Built up tension that can only be released through acting on impulse

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Name 5 example of a Impulse Control Disorder.

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Intermittent explosive disorder, kleptomania, pyromania, gambling, and trichotilimania.

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Define Intermittent explosive disorder

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aggressive outbursts that destroy property and hurt people unprovoked or out of proportion to triggering event.

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Anxiety Disorder

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Psychological disorders characterized by distressing, persistent anxiety or maladaptive behavior that reduces anxiety

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Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

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A disorder where a person is continually tense, apprehensive, and in a state of automatic nervous system arousal

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Panic disorder

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disorder marked by a moment of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensations.

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Phobia.

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Disorder marked be a persistent, irrational fear, and avoidance of a specific object or situation

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obsessive-compulsive disorder

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characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and actions.

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Social Phobia

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excessive fear of social situations

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acrophobia

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Fear of heights

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agoraphobia

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Fear of public places

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Dissociative Disorders

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Changes in consciousness, memory, or self identity.

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Somatoform Disorders

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Physical ailments or complaints that can not be explained by organic causes.

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Dissociative identity Disorder (DID)

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(Also known as multiple personality disorder) chacterized by the appearance of multiple personalities in the same individual.

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Define Self Preservation and name the disorder that it is associated with.

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Protecting one's self from anxiety and it is associated with DID.

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Conversion Disorder

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suffers from loss of physical function, loss of vision, loss of feeling in hand or arm; there is no physical cause.

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Hypochondriac

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Excessive concern of having a serious illness.

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Mood Disorder

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Psychological disorder characterized by emotional extremes

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Major Depressive Disorder

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depression, lethargy, & feelings of worthlessness or loss of interest in friends/family lasts more than two weeks.

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What is the number one reason people seek mental help?

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Depression

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Bipolar Disorder

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Person alternates between mania and depression.

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Manic Episode

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A mood disorder marked by hyperactive, wildly optimistic state.

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Seasonal affective disorder

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People experience repeated patterns of depression in the fall and winter.

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What hormones are scarce with depression?

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serotine and norepinephine

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What do depressed people view bad events as?

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Stable(forever), global(everything, and eternal (me)

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Labeling Theory

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assertion that deviance and conformity result not so much from what people do as from what others respond to those actions.