PSYC 2490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Frontal Lobe, Delayed Gratification, Antipsychotic

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2490
• Professor: Leda Worobec

Document Summary

Focuses on the objective recording and or description of behaviour: functional analysis - looking at the problem behaviour in terms of what function it serves, no matter how maladaptive, it serves some sort of function. Look at what preceded the behaviour, what the behaviour is, and what came after the behaviour: a-b-c, methods, behavioural interview, reactivity. Cognitive assessment - be able to recognize an example of it, do not need to know how to compare. Involves the assessment of cognitions (thoughts, beliefs, and attitudes) How do we classify abnormal behaviour: classification systems for abnormal behaviour date back to ancient times, the most modern system of classification - dsm 5 - emerges out of the work of kraeplin in the. 19th century: classification is at the core of the scientific enterprise, you know what to expect and how to treat what they are suffering from.