Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Classical Conditioning, Cortisol, Neurotransmitter

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: Elizabeth Hayden

Document Summary

The developmental psychopathology perspective on abnormal child psychology. Normal and abnormal behaviour are (almost always) on a shared continuum. The continuum of behaviour tends to be important: kids tend to be active (some more than others, there is a certain level of unpredictability whether the child has a disorder or not. Everything has multiple causes there is no disorder that can be understood based on one causal factor. We can relate normal behaviour to pathological behaviour based on quantity (how much anger the child shows) Developmental pathways: life course perspective on disorder. Looking at a disorder based on their life course. We know that some phobias go away after a while because we look at the life course perspective: precursors and consequences of disorder. Predi(cid:272)tors of a disorder (cid:449)hat predi(cid:272)ts the o(cid:374)set of a (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) disorder. Resilience is as important as understanding vulnerability.