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1.0 What Is Abnormal Behavior? |
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1.1 Recognize the difficulties in defining abnormal behavior, because it overlaps with "normal" behavior. |
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1.2 Contrast the view of abnormal behavior as deviation from the average with the view of abnormal behavior as deviation from the optimal. |
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1.3 Define abnormal behavior as a concept that incorporates biological, psychological, and sociocultural dimensions. |
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1.4 Discuss the importance of the biopsychosocial perspective. |
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2.0 Abnormal Psychology throughout History |
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2.1 Recognize the influence of beliefs about possession on prehistoric approaches to psychological disorders. |
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2.2 Indicate how the beliefs of Hippocrates and Galen contributed to a scientific approach to understanding abnormal behavior. |
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2.3 Explain the return in the Middle Ages to the belief that abnormal behavior is caused by demonic or spiritual possession and how this belief was reflected in the treatment of the mentally ill. |
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2.4 Describe the reform movement in Europe and the U.S. in the 1700s, and the contributions of Chiarugi, Pinel, Tuke, Rush, and Dix. |
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2.5 Explain the contributions of psychiatrists, such as Greisinger and Kraepelin, to contemporary medical approaches to treating the mentally ill. |
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2.6 Describe the influence of Freud's psychoanalytic treatment of psychological disorders, and the impact of its predecessors such as Braid, Mesmer, Liébault, Bernheim, and Charcot. |
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2.7 Indicate how somatic treatments, such as psychosurgery and electroconvulsive therapy, were used and abused as treatment methods for those institutionalized. |
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2.8 Explain the pros and cons of the deinstitutionalization movement, and the components of successful community treatment programs. |
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3.0 Research Methods in Abnormal Psychology |
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3.1 Describe the essential elements of the scientific method including observation, hypothesis formation, and sampling. |
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3.2 Explain the experimental method, and describe the concepts of independent and dependent variables, placebos, treatment and control groups, double-blind technique, the quasi-experimental design, and demand characteristics. |
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3.3 Discuss the correlational method, and define negative and positive correlations. |
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3.4 Outline the survey method, and distinguish prevalence from incidence. |
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3.5 Describe the case study method. |
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3.6 Indicate how the single-subject study is conducted, and how the multiple baseline technique is used in this type of research. |
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3.7 Explain the logic and procedures involved in studies of genetic influence including twin studies, adoption studies, cross-fostering studies, biological marker studies, and genetic mapping research. |
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4.0 The Human Experience of Psychological Disorders |
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4.1 Explain the concepts of stigma and distress as they apply to an individual with a psychological disorder. |
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4.2 Indicate how psychological disorders affect the individual, the family, the community, and society. |
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5.0 Chapter Boxes |
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5.1 Discuss some of the key ideas in the case of Kelsey Grammar. |
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5.2 Describe the importance of the study in which psychologists disguised themselves as psychiatric patients and sought admission to a hospital. |