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Abnormal Psychology

DSM IV- diagnostic statistical manual or mental disorders- big book of disorder but it does not explain

Phobia

- sudden experiences 

-sudden episodes of intense dread

O.C.D 

-persistent unwanted thoughts cause

-someone to feel the need to engage in a particular action

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder

-flashbacks or nightmares following a persons movement in or observation of an extremely stress full event

Mood Disorders

Major Depression: 

-Unhappy for at least two weeks

what the brain looks like->

Bipolar Disorder:
-manic depression

-periods of depression and manic episodes

Chapter 1

Goals of Psychology:

• Observe
• Predict
• Explain
• Describe
• Control

Socrates and Plato think that we as humans the brain already filled with knowledge and now we just use it.

Aristotle and Locke thinks that our brains start as a blank slate and we have to lean things to fill the slate.

Wilhelm Wandt: Father of psychology

Structuralism:
-Breaks it down into mental processes that are very basic forms.
      Ex: HEAR, TASTE, SMELL, FEEL, SEE?
Functionalism: 
-focus less on the sensation or perception, but on rather why?