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Abnormal Behavior
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Abnormal Behavior
Abnormal Behavior
• Definition
– Actions, thoughts, and feelings harmful to a
person or others; experiencing discomfort
enough to not function
– Continuity hypothesis
• Insanity and mental illness terms should not
be used
– Discontinuity hypothesis
• Only strong terms can accurately portray
true nature of abnormal behavior
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Abnormal Behavior
Historical Views
• Supernatural theories
– Resulted in more harmful treatments like
exorcism, drinking foul concoctions, witches
put to death (mostly women)
• Biological theories
– Ancient Greece: four humors of body
– 1800s: bacteria, syphilis, and penicillin
– Made effective drug therapies possible
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Abnormal Behavior
Historical Views
• Psychological theories
– Pythagoras: psychological factors like stress
caused problems
– Freud revived the theory; able to compete with
supernatural and biological approaches
• Model of unconscious conflicts
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Abnormal Behavior
Contemporary Views
• The DSM-IV
– American Psychiatric Association’s manual
– Multi-axial system of classifications
• Axis I: Clinical disorders
• Axis II: Personality disorders and mental
retardation
• Axis III: General medical conditions
• Axis IV: Psychosocial and environmental
problems
• Axis V: Global assessment of functioning
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Abnormal Behavior
The Problem of Stigma
• Abnormal behavior stigmatized – negative
perceptions associated with it (frightening,
uncomfortable, or viewed as dangerous)
– Can make mental health problems worse
– Can prevent afflicted persons from seeking
treatment
– Why stigmatize? Unwillingness to let others see
one’s flaws and weaknesses?
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Abnormal Behavior
Concept of Insanity
• Not guilty by reason of insanity
– Hinckley trial in 1982
– Insane: at time of conduct, person had disease
or defect, lacked substantial capacity to know
act was wrong or broke a law
• Competence to stand trial
– Insanity: cannot understand trial proceedings
• Involuntary commitment
– Person poses danger to self or others
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Abnormal Behavior
Disorders
• Anxiety Disorders
– Excessive levels of kinds of negative emotions
– Uncomfortable and disruptive levels of anxiety
– Affects women more than men
• Phobias
– Intense, unrealistic or irrational fear
– Specific phobia (least disruptive), social
phobia, agoraphobia (most impairing)
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Abnormal Behavior
Disorders
• Generalized anxiety disorder
– Free-floating anxiety (usually relatively mild)
– No periods of calm experienced
– Vague, uneasy sense of tension
• Panic anxiety disorder
– Intensely uncomfortable attacks of anxiety
– Extremely sensitive to small bodily changes
– Attack causes exaggerated bodily reactions
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Changes
in three
measures of
sympathetic
autonomic
arousal
when
subject
experienced
panic attack
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Abnormal Behavior
Disorders
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
– Affects soldiers from Vietnam, Operation
Desert Storm, and Iraqi wars; also Nazi death
camp and prison camp survivors)
– Suffering severe reactions years after traumatic
event (some recover, some get worse over time)
– Experiences include:
• Dreams with horror
• Intense emotional bodily reactions
• Difficulty concentrating or sleeping
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Abnormal Behavior
Stressors Causing PTSD
• Combat-related events
• Sudden death of loved one
• Involved in or witnessing accidents
• Physical assault, rape, sexual molestation
experienced by women
• Terrorism experiences
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Abnormal Behavior
Who Develops PTSD?
• Four factors involved
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– Severity of stress
• Risk increased when physical injury occurs
– Person’s characteristics before event
• Affects those with higher anxiety levels, lower
intelligence, previous mental health problems
– Social support
• More support lessens risk
– Sex of the victim
• Women more at risk
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Abnormal Behavior
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorders
• Definitions
– Obsessions – continuous anxiety-provoking
thoughts
– Compulsions – irresistible urges to engage in
behaviors
– Two separate disorders; often found together in
same person
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Abnormal Behavior
Somatoform Disorders
– Experiencing symptoms of physical health
problems with psychological causes
• Four types
– Somatization disorders – intensely and
chronically uncomfortable conditions
– Hypochondriasis – preoccupation with health
– Conversion disorders – symptoms not
medically possible
– Somatoform pain disorders – primary
symptom is pain with no physical cause
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Abnormal Behavior
Dissociative Disorders
• Broad category of loosely related conditions
• Four kinds
– Depersonalization – distorted, unreal feelings
– Dissociative amnesia – psychological cause
– Dissociative fugue – complete loss of memory
– Dissociative identity disorder – once known
as multiple personality disorder; very
controversial issue
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Abnormal Behavior
Mood Disorders
• Two forms
– Depression
• Major depression - episodic disorder, quite
common, often mild but takes its toll
– Rare to have psychotic distortion of reality
• Bipolar disorder (depression and mania)
• Caused by high levels of anxiety; genetic
influences
• Cognitive factors – negative views of self
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Abnormal Behavior
Mood Disorders
• Two forms
– Depression
• Major depression - episodic disorder, quite
common, often mild but takes its toll
– Rare to have psychotic distortion of reality
• Caused by high levels of anxiety; genetic
influences
• Cognitive factors – negative views of self
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Probability of developing major depression
for the first time in a given year
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Females
Males
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Abnormal Behavior
Human Diversity
• Ethnic and gender differences in
depression and suicide
– Women more at risk for depression
– Depressed persons more at risk for suicide
– American Indians have highest rate of suicide
– African Americans have lowest rate and
Hispanic groups have second lowest rate
(rates vary among Hispanic subgroups)
– White women have highest rate of females
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African American
Non-Hispanic white
Asian/Pacific Islanders
American Indian
% deaths due to suicide
3
2.5
2
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0.5
0
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Percent of
deaths due to
suicide among
different raceethnic groups
in the U.S.
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Abnormal Behavior
Bipolar Disorder
• Alternating irregular periods of severe
depression and mania
– Mania – mood disturbance in which person
experiences a high, intense euphoria
• High self-esteem, unrealistic optimism
• Psychotic distortion during episodes;
damaging or extreme behavior
• Occurs in multiple episodes; cause unknown
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Abnormal Behavior
Schizophrenia
• Uncommon disorder affecting more men
than women
– Can appear gradually or with sudden break
– Characterized by 3 types of serious problems
• Delusions and hallucinations
• Disorganized thinking, emotions, behavior
• Reduced enjoyment and interests
– Causes: genetic and environment
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Abnormal Behavior
Schizophrenia
• Subtypes
– Paranoid schizophrenia
• False beliefs, delusions (grandeur, paranoia,
persecution), hallucinations
– Disorganized schizophrenia
• Delusions, hallucinations, cognitive
processes highly disorganized or fragmented
• Extreme social withdrawal
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Abnormal Behavior
Schizophrenia
• Subtypes
– Catatonic schizophrenia
• May have delusions and hallucinations; most
abnormalities in social interaction, body
posture and movement (waxy flexibility in
stupors)
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Abnormal Behavior
Delusional Disorder
• Characterized by paranoid delusions of
grandeur and persecution
– Dangerous because of believability of delusions
– Reverand Jim Jones and Jonestown deaths
– David Koresh and Waco (TX) deaths
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Abnormal Behavior
Attention Deficit/
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Inattention symptoms
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Cannot focus
Fails to see details
Careless mistakes
Highly distractible
Incomplete tasks
Often loses items
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– Does not listen
– Dislikes/avoids
focused tasks
– Often forgetful
– Disorganized
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Abnormal Behavior
Attention Deficit/
Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Hyperactivity-impulsivity
– Often fidgets or squirms
when seated
– Often leaves seat when
should remain seated
– Runs/climbs excessively
– Difficulty engaging in
play/leisure quietly
– Often interrupts/intrudes
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– Often on-the-go;
driven like a motor
– Talks excessively
– Blurts out answers
before question is
finished
– Can’t wait for turn
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Abnormal Behavior
Personality Disorders
• Schizoid personality disorder
– Blunted emotions, social withdrawal, but no
serious cognitive disturbances
• Antisocial personality disorder
– Feel little guilt, exploit others, frequent violation
of social rules and laws
– Difficulty with personal relationships
– Low tolerance for frustration, lie easily/skillfully
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Abnormal Behavior
Other Personality Disorders
Schizotypal personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
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