Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Yield Sign, Sympathetic Nervous System, Neuroscience
29 Sep 2014
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. e. g you ask a person, did the car come to a complete stop? (but there was no stop sign at all). The person will think yea that makes sense and answer yes, it definitely did . Because it can be arbitrary, we need some objective guideline like stats to assess normality: to be diagnosed as a disorder, must cause some form of impairment. So, even if more then 2 std. dev. Away, but no impairment, not disorder: reducing stigma of mental illness, how, remember ear ache vs. psych ache exercise. Why we call the doctor for one ache and not for the other: if defining abnormal is arbitrary and time and culture based, we must use probabilistic definitions of normal ranges (stats, changing stereotypes against mental illnesses. In a hotel, 500 accountants and 100 musicians, you go into someone"s room, you see jeans and rolling stone magazine.
