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Do Now
1. Brainstorm 2-3 examples of what you consider
to be “normal” adolescent behavior.
2. Next, come up with your own definition of
normal and abnormal behavior.
3. Next, imagine the following settings:
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A rural village in India
A presidential inauguration
A funeral
A courtyard in the city of Beijing, China
Question: Of the behaviors you listed as “normal,”
which would be “abnormal” in each of the
settings above? Why?
Activities
• Act. 1. Due date: October 29
• Reactions of Perceived Abnormal Behaviors
– 6 groups of 3
– Each group is assigned one of the following behaviors and each
member must perform the behavior during and after school:
• Shake the hand of a friend, but hold on much longer than usual
• Make direct eye contact with someone on the bus or in the cafeteria, and
prolong the gaze for 15-20 seconds
• Respond to a greeting such as “How are you?” with “Why do you want to
know?”
– NOTE: Do NOT experiment with these FACULTY.
– Each member of each group should complete the experiment
sometime during the day, and immediately write down the
reactions he or she received.
– The group will compile a list of reactions that were observed
• Oral presentations will be given by each group. You may elect
to have one or two people from the group present the group’s
findings.
Activities cont…
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Act. 2. Due Date: November 12
Disorders of the famous or infamous
– 6 groups of 3
– Each group will research an assigned a disorder finding 3 examples of real people
throughout history who have suffered from the disorder. NOTE: Your people
may be well-known or not.
– Types of Disorders:
• Conversion
• Hypochondriasis
• Dissociative amnesia
• Dissociative Fugue
• Dissociative identify disorder
Presentations should be in the form of a PowerPoint or Video lecture that includes:
– Information about the disorder (symptoms, causes, etc.)
– Treatment Options
– Information about 3 people who suffered from the disorder and result of treatment
Activity 3 or 4
Your Choice
• Due Date: November 18
• Schizophrenia
– In same groups or alone
– Groups will construct an Academic Poster/Chart
outlining the following:
• Symptoms (with descriptions)
• Types of Schizophrenia (with descriptions)
• Explanations, supporting evidence, and limitations of 3
theories
• An illustration of your choice that depicts each type of
schizophrenia
Activity 4
Your Choice
• Act. 4 Due Date: November 18
• Mood Disorders
• The artist Vincent van Gogh suffered from a mood disorder.
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Identify the disorder
Identify when and where van Gogh lived
Research how his disorder affected his work
Provide a minimum of 3 examples of paintings that were created when
he was psychologically healthy and 3 that were created when he was
suffering form the disorder.
– Provide an opinion/explanation of the works displayed that illustrate
his disorder.
– Why is this an example from his work that displays his disorder?
• Presentation styles: PowerPoint or other multimedia format for
visualization purposes.
Unit 3
Chapter 16.1, 16.3, and 16.4
Psychological Disorders
16.1
• By the end of this unit, students will be able to
determine:
1. How psychologists determine the normal
from the abnormal
2. The most popular ways of distinguishing
normal from abnormal behavior?
3. Potential problems with labeling the mentally
ill
Approach 1: Deviation from Normality
• Defining abnormality: whatever most people
do is normal
– Abnormality is any deviation from the
average/majority behavior
• Deviance approach has limitations
– Majority is not always right or best
– Does not take into account cultural differences
Approach 2: Adjustment
• Normal people “get along” in society
– They adjust when they need to (cultures, societal
situations, etc.)
• Abnormal people fail to adjust
– Unhappiness evolves into:
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Eating disorders
Relationship issues
Lethargy
Employment problems
Societal ire
Approach 3: Psychological Health
• Mental illness vs. Mental health
– Mental illness is different from physical illness
– Ideal behavior (psychologically and physically)
• Carl Jung an Abraham Maslos (Personality
Theorists)
– Self-Actualization: to be normal or healthy involves
full acceptance and expression of one’s own
individuality and humanness.
– Problem: difficulty determining person is doing a good
job of actualizing
Thomas Szasz and Labeling
• Labeling a person mentally ill because of odd
behavior is a mistake
• Szasz argued people simply have “problems
living.”
– Societal norms remain unchallenged
– Psychs don’t deal with patient conflicts, simply label
• Patients are deprived of responsibility for
behaviors and human dignity
– Result = intensified problems