PSYC 1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Avolition, Taste, Frontal Lobe
28 Mar 2017
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March 3, 8, 10, 15 & 17, 2017. Examining different theoretical approaches to understanding the nature of mental disorders: assessment & diagnosis. Classifying and labeling mental illness: anxiety disorders, mood disorders, dissociative disorders. It is somewhat typical for students who are learning about an illness/disorder to feel they are exhibiting the disorder: hardy (1997) Found students majoring in psychology to be more worried about their psychological health than those majoring in other fields. She also found that learning about psychological disorders was helpful in reducing students" fears about their own psychological status. However, these same students reported an increase in fear about their families" mental health. Psychopathology (the study of mental diseases/disorders: mental illness, mental disease or mental disorder. Definitions: etiology the cause or origin of a disease. Biogenic formed from (or caused by) biology. Symptomatology the study of, or the treatment of, the symptoms of a disease. Theories of etiology (explaining abnormal behaviour: historically.
