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Chapter 19 - Statistics

Percentile Rank – A percentage that describes your rank among those also being evaluated.  I.e. if your percentile rank on a test is 90, then your score is higher than 90% of the class.  It is impossible to get 100% percentile rank because you cannot get higher than everyone in the class, including yourself.

Chapter 15 - Psychological Disorders

Psychological Disorder- a condition in which behavior is judged

  • Atypical-not enough in itself
  • Disturbing- varied with time and culture
  • Maladaptive- harmful
  • Unjustifiable- sometimes there's a good reason

Historical Perspective

  • Perceived Causes- movements of sun or moon; evil spirits
  • Ancient Treatments- exorcism, caged like animals, beaten, burned, castrated, mutilated, blood replaced with animals blood

Psychological Disorders

Chapter 14 - Personality

Personality

  • An individual’s characteristic pattern of thinking, feeling, and acting
  • Four basic perspectives
  • Psychoanalytic
  • Trait
  • Humanistic
  • Social-cognitive
  • From Freud’s theory which proposes that childhood sexuality and unconscious motivations influence personality

 

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