PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Panic Disorder, Panic Attack

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

Document Summary

Week 4 nature and cause of psychological disorders part 1. 3 pong test: clinically signiicant, causes distress and impairs daily funcion, not a predictable reacion to an external event, not a result of voluntary choice. Clinically signiicant: signiicant in intensity or duraion that the paient would beneit from treatment. Factors contribuing to psychological disorders: biological ( geneic disposiion, sociocultural (family history, living environment, psychological (internal conlicts) Dsm-iv: diagnosic and staisical manual of mental disorders. Include: sympions, eiology(origin/cause of symptoms) and prognosis (persist over ime without treatment) Categorical views of disorder: regarding diferent mental condiions as diferent types, rather than degrees: down syndrome, dimensional views of disorder: normal and abnormal disincion is a mater of degree, disorder=extreme version of normal thoughts, ex. ptsd. Diathesis-stress model: how interacion between our gene and our environment can cause a mental disorder. 2 models used to understand disorders: medical model: using medical condiions to think about psychological condiions.