PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Bulimia Nervosa, Psychopathology, Psychopharmacology

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Lisa Giguere

Document Summary

There are about 450 million people in the world struggling with a psychological disorder. Some disorders are culture specific (eating disorders, bulimia) others such as depression and schizophrenia are observed across all cultures (can find people in multiple cultures that show same criteria) To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal: william james, gives you a comparison point. I tried and wanted to stop, but i couldn"t that shows ocd! Patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behavior that are deviant, distressful or dysfunctional. Whether a behavior varies from normality depends on the situation in which the behavior occurs (context) Situational differences in normality are typically reflected in broader cultural differences. Because psychological processes are fundamentally shaped by experience, cultural experiences shape even basic psychological processes such as perception (example: the lines that appear to be different lengths, north. America has lots of sharp angles, so we are used to them!)