PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Stereotype, Panic Attack, Agoraphobia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: N/ A

Document Summary

None of the perspectives on its own is enough to explain personality. All of the perspectives together contribute to explain how personality develops. Think they are capable of fixing it themselves: defining psychological disorder. At what point does a behaviour become abnormal: statistical infrequency. Certain behaviour which is not very frequent: deviant behaviour, distressing behaviour, dysfunctional. Harmful, disabling, and life-threatening: understanding psychological disorders. Understanding the psychological disorders helps treat the person suffering from the disorder. Today: psychopathology: diagnose: symptoms, cure: therapy. Nature & nurture: genetic, psychological, physiological, social & cultural. Koro: found in asia; men who are terrified that their penis is going to go into their abdomen and kill them; anxiety disorder: classifying disorders. Lists all the disorders, symptoms, criteria of having disorder. Some people say it is culturally biased that it is based on western culture. Myth busting: people who have a psychological disorder are biological, suffering from a psychological disorder have a personal weakness, they are dangerous.