Abnormal Psychology

A condition characterized by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior.

• Psychopathology

• Phycological Disorder

• Mental Illness

• Anxiety

The scientific study of mental disorders including maladaptive behaviors, progression, and treatment.

• Psychology

• Biology

• Psychopathology

• Medical Model

Behavior that is atypical or out of the ordinary within a culture.

• Abnormal

• Normal

• Psycho

• Bipolar

Disturbed or dysfunctional behaviors that interfere with day-to-day life.

• ADD

• Paldaptive

• Maldaptive

• Personal Distress

A person’s negative physiological reaction to his or her own personal emotional stress.

• Maldaptive

• Personal Distress

• Adaptive

• Atypical

Behavior that deviates from what is culturally accepted and is considered unacceptable and intolerable.

• Violation of Cultural Norms

• Violation of personal space

• Abnormal behavior

• Normal Behavior

Greek physician and philosopher who is known as the Father of Medicine.

• Aristotle

• Hippocrates

• Plato

• Socrates

A surgical operation involving an incision into the prefrontal lobe of the brain, formerly used to treat mental illness.

• Brain surgery

• electrotherapy

• shock

• Lobotomy

This approach assumes that psychological disorders have a biological cause.

• Biological

• Medical

• Psychoanalytic

• Behavioral

This approach focuses on human functioning stemming from the unconscious.

• Behavioral

• Biological

• Psychodynamic

• Cognitive