PSYCO105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Panic Attack, Limbic System
5 Mar 2019
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Psych 105: individual and social behaviour (04th march 2019)- lecture 22. Precipitating causes: often talked about under the umbrella of stress and emotional reaction to stress e. g. anxiety. When a person"s predisposition is very high, a stressful situation is more likely to bring on a psychological disorder. Even under low levels of stress a person predisposed with mental disorder can have mental disorder. On the other hand, even high amount of stress cannot bring on mental disorder in non-predisposed people. Cumulative risk bad environment or environment with more risk factors lead to lower iq, poor performance in school and having these experiences can disturb a person"s course of development. This is a great indicator of developing mental disorder, as with more risk factors in an environment, the number of mental disorders in the population increases. Perpetuating causes consequences of a psychological disorder that keep the disorder going once it begins.
