Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Biological Psychiatry, Psychoanalytic Theory, Abnormal Psychology

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

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What is classification: classification of mental disorders: branch of psychiatry/clinical psychology concerned with description of disorder, based on symptoms; course. Advantages of classification: theory, description, essential for research of any kind, prediction, communication. Loss of information or uniqueness: boundary cases. Evolution of dsm: dsm classification system for mental disorders, five major versions, dsm-i (1952, dsm-ii (1968) Inter-rater reliability = agreement between raters on a diagnosis: often measured using kappa, which accounts for chance agreement, >. 75 is good,