Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Sexual Dysfunction, Panic Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-de Hoog

Document Summary

Anxiety disorders: onset in young adulthood, most prevalent psychological disorder in north america, more common in females, high occurrence, affects 25% of people, phobia: strong and irrational fears of certain objects or situations. Sociocultural: some anxiety disorders are culture specific: koro: southeast asian fear that your penis will retract into stomach and kill you. Suicide: happens every 40 seconds, more common in europe than na. They react more strongly to their own failures: learned helplessness theory: depression happens when people expect bad events and believe that there is nothing they can do to prevent them. Severe disturbances in thinking, speech, perception, emotion and behaviour. Schizophrenia means split mind, but is not the same as did: the components of the mind become disconnected, a splitting of mental processes, characteristics: Personality disorders: antisocial: irresponsible and antisocial, impulsive needs, lack of empathy, highly manipulative, no conscience, selfishness, callousness and interpersonal manipulation. Schizoid: indifferent to social relationships, restricted range of emotions.