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The Application of the Five-Factor Model to Psychopathology (For Example,personality

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The application of the Five-Factor Model to psychopathology (for example,personality disorders) suggests that people with disorders possess the same personality "ingredients" as those without disorders.If our society adopted this viewpoint (that abnormal people are quantitatively,not qualitatively,different from normal people),what would be the implications? In your opinion,why has our society adopted the qualitative viewpoint in the first place?


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Conditioning

The process of learning associations between environmental stimuli and behavioral responses, often used to explain behavior modification.

Pavlov

Refers to Ivan Pavlov, a Russian physiologist best known for his discovery of classical conditioning, where he demonstrated how reflexes could be conditioned or learned through association.

Behavior Therapy

A type of therapy that focuses on changing undesirable behaviors through reinforcement, punishment, and other learning principles.

Methodological Behaviorism

A branch of psychology that focuses on observable behaviors and their relationship to environmental stimuli, excluding inner thoughts and feelings from its study.

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