PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Attention Seeking, Autobiographical Memory, Amygdala

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Asylums residential facilities for the mentally ill. Reforms issued a new approach called moral treatment which led to patients being treated with kindness and decency. The medical model sees psychological conditions through the same lens as. Western medicine tends to see physical conditions as set of symptoms, causes and outcomes with treatments aimed at changing physiological processes in order to alleviate symptoms. A solution to defining is to understand the appropriate cultural framework and perspective, then find out whether most people in that culture or having that perspective will have similar experiences. Determining what is normal and what is abnormal is fraught with difficulty and subjective bias. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm) standard manual to aid in the diagnosis of disorders. Purpose was to provide mental health workers with a reliable method for diagnosing mental illness and to ensure consistency across different institutions and hospitals.