PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Schizophrenia, Autism Spectrum, Seasonal Affective Disorder

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Myriam Mongrain

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The medical model applied to abnormal behavior. The prevalence of psychological disorders: epidemiology is the study of the distribution or mental or physical disorders in a population, prevalence refers to the percentage of a population that exhibits a disorder during a specified time period. Agoraphobia is a fear of going out to public places. Obsessive-compulsive disorder: ocd is marked by persistent, uncontrollable intrusions of unwanted thoughts and urges to engage in senseless rituals, conditiojing and learning, cognitive factors, stress. Dissociative disorders are a class if disorders in which poople lose contact with portions of their consciousness or memory, resulting in disruptions in their sense of identity. Dissociative identity disorder: did involves the co-exsistence in one person of two or more largely complete and usually very different personalities used to be called multiple personality disorder. Are a class of disorders marked by emotional disturbance of varied kinds that may spill over to disrupt physical, perceptual, social and thought process.