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• 📘 Abnormal_Psychology
  • 📄 abnormal psychology ▶
  • 📄 Credits and Legal Information ▶
  • 📄 brief contents ▶
  • 📄 What's new in DSM-5? A Quick Guide ▶
  • 📄 Preface ▶
    • Introduction ▶
    • Why Do you Need this New edition? ▶
    • What's New ▶
    • Features and Pedagogy ▶
      • Features ▶
        • Feature Boxes ▶
        • Critical Thinking ▶
        • Unresolved Issues ▶
      • Pedagogy ▶
        • Learning Objectives ▶
        • Case Studies ▶
        • In-Review Questions ▶
        • DSM-5 Boxes ▶
        • Research Close-Up Terms ▶
        • Chapter Summaries ▶
        • Key Terms ▶
    • supplements Package ▶
      • MyPsychLab for Abnormal Psychology ▶
      • Speaking Out: Interviews with People Who Struggle with Psychological Disorders ▶
      • Instructor's Manual (0205971946) ▶
      • Test Bank (0205971938) ▶
      • MyTest: (020591537X) ▶
      • lecture PowerPoint Slides (0205978398) ▶
      • CourseSmart (0205971768) ▶
    • acknowledgments ▶
  • 📄 About the Authors ▶
    • James N. Butcher ▶
    • Jill M. Hooley, Harvard University ▶
    • susan Mineka, Northwestern University ▶
  • 📄 Chapter 1: abnormal psychology - an overview ▶
    • learning objectives ▶
    • Introduction ▶
    • What Do We Mean by Abnormality? ▶
      • 1. Suffering ▶
      • 2. Maladaptiveness ▶
      • 3. Statistical Deviancy ▶
      • 4. Violation of the Standards of Society ▶
      • 5. Social Discomfort ▶
      • 6. Irrationality and Unpredictability ▶
      • 7. Dangerousness ▶
      • The DSM-5 and the Definition of Mental Disorder ▶
      • Extreme Generosity or Pathological Behavior? ▶
      • Thinking Critically about DSM-5 ▶
      • Why Do We Need to Classify Mental Disorders? ▶
    • What Are the Disadvantages of Classification? ▶
      • How Can We Reduce Prejudicial Attitudes Toward the Mentally ill? ▶
      • the World around us: Mad, Sick, Head Nuh Good - Mental Illness and Stigma in Jamaica ▶
      • How Does Culture Affect What Is Considered Abnormal? ▶
      • Culture-Specific Disorders ▶
      • Let us review our learning ▶
    • How Common Are Mental Disorders? ▶
      • Prevalence and Incidence ▶
      • Prevalence Estimates for Mental Disorders ▶
        • Table 1.1 - Prevalence of DSM-IV Disorders in Adults in the United States ▶
        • Table 1.2, "Most Common Individual Mental Disorders in the United States" ▶
      • Treatment ▶
      • Mental Health Professionals ▶
      • Review learning ▶
    • Research Approaches in Abnormal Psychology ▶
    • Sources of Information ▶
      • Case Studies ▶
      • Self-Report Data ▶
      • Observational Approaches ▶
      • Review learning ▶
    • Forming and Testing Hypotheses ▶
      • Sampling and Generalization ▶
      • Internal and External Validity ▶
      • Criterion and Comparison Groups ▶
      • Review learning ▶
    • Research Designs ▶
      • Studying the World as It Is: Correlational Research Designs ▶
      • Measuring Correlation ▶
      • Statistical Significance ▶
      • Effect Size ▶
      • Meta-Analysis ▶
      • Correlations and Causality ▶
      • Retrospective Versus Prospective Strategies ▶
      • Manipulating Variables: The Experimental Method in Abnormal Psychology ▶
      • Studying the Efficacy of Therapy ▶
      • Figure 1.3, "Correlational and Experimental Research Designs" ▶
        • Part A : Correlational Research ▶
        • Part B: Experimental Research ▶
      • Single-Case Experimental Designs ▶
      • Developments in Research: Do Magnets Help With Repetitive-Stress Injury? ▶
      • Case Study: An ABAB Experimental Design for Kris's Treatment ▶
      • Animal Research ▶
      • Review Learning ▶
      • Unresolved issues: Are We All Becoming Mentally ill? The Expanding Horizons of Mental Disorder ▶
    • Chapter 1 Summary ▶
      • 1. 1 How do we define abnormality and classify mental disorders? ▶
      • 1. 2 What are the advantages and disadvantages of classification? ▶
      • 1. 3 How common are mental disorders? Which disorders are most prevalent? ▶
      • 1. 4 Why do we need a research-based approach in abnormal psychology? ▶
      • 1. 5 How do we gather information about mental disorders? ▶
      • 1. 6 What kinds of research designs are used to conduct research in abnormal psychology? ▶
  • 📄 Chapter 2 - historical and contemporary views of abnormal behavior ▶
    • learning objectives ▶
    • An Artist in Bedlam ▶
    • Historical Views of Abnormal Behavior ▶
      • Demonology, Gods, and Magic ▶
      • Hippocrates' Early Medical Concepts ▶
    • Developments in Thinking - Melancholia Through the Ages ▶
      • Melancholia ▶
      • Early Philosophical Conceptions of Consciousness ▶
      • Later Greek and Roman Thought ▶
      • Early Views of Mental Disorders in China ▶
      • Views of Abnormality During the Middle Ages ▶
        • An Early Treatment Case. ▶
        • Mass Madness ▶
        • Exorcism And Witchcraft ▶
      • Review Learning ▶
    • Toward Humanitarian Approaches ▶
      • The Resurgence of scientific Questioning in Europe ▶
      • The Establishment of Early Asylums ▶
      • Humanitarian Reform ▶
      • Pinel's Experiment ▶
        • Tuke's Work in England ▶
        • Rush And Moral Management in America ▶
    • Benjamin Franklin's early discovery of the potential curative effects of electric shock ▶
      • Dix And the Mental Hygiene Movement ▶
      • The Military and Mentally Ill. ▶
      • nineteenth-Century Views of the Causes and Treatment of Mental Disorders ▶
      • Changing Attitudes Toward Mental Health in the Early Twentieth Century ▶
    • The World Around us - Chaining Mental Health Patients ▶
    • Mental Hospital Care in the Twentieth Century ▶
      • Review Learning ▶
    • The Emergence of Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior ▶
      • Biological Discoveries: Establishing the Link Between the Brain and Mental Disorder ▶
        • General Paresis And Syphilis ▶
        • Brain Pathology As A Causal factor ▶
      • The Development of a Classification system ▶
      • Development of the Psychological Basis of Mental Disorder ▶
    • Developments in Research - The Search for Medications to Cure Mental Disorders ▶
      • Mesmerism ▶
      • The Nancy School ▶
      • The Beginnings of Psychoanalysis ▶
      • The Evolution of the Psychological Research Tradition: Experimental Psychology ▶
        • The Early Psychology Laboratories ▶
        • The Behavioral Perspective ▶
        • Classical Conditioning ▶
        • Operant Conditioning ▶
    • Major figures in the Early History of Abnormal Psychology ▶
      • The Ancient World ▶
      • The Middle Ages ▶
      • The sixteenth Through the Eighteenth Centuries ▶
      • The nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries ▶
      • Review Learning ▶
    • Unresolved Issues - Interpreting Historical Events ▶
    • Chapter Summary ▶
      • 2. 1 How has abnormal behavior been viewed throughout history? ▶
      • 2. 2 What effect did the emergence of humanism have on abnormal psychology? ▶
      • 2. 3 What developments led to the contemporary view of abnormal psychology? ▶