PSY 3625 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Extraversion And Introversion, Amygdala, Mitochondrion

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY 3625
• Professor: Hollon Steven

Document Summary

Disease or disorder: disease implies biological causation, big genetic component or clear neural deterioration. Schizophrenia / bipolar disorder / autism: disorder psychological causation, learning superimposed on an intact nervous system. Most nonpsychotic disorders: all learning involves altered neural structures. Signs/symptoms- specific indices that can be observed (signs) or reported (symptoms) Syndrome: collection of signs and symptoms that go together with greater than chance frequency: disorder (disease): entity that shares common syndrome, course, prognosis, treatment response, and etiology (the cause or set of causes of a disease or condition) Epidemiology: study of the distribution of disease/disorders in a given population. Incidence: number of new cases that occur in a population over a given period of time: prevalence: number of active cases in a population during a given period of time. Types of prevalence: point prevalence: active cases in population at any instance in time, one-time prevalence: number of active cases over the course of a year.