PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Handedness, Twin Study, Autonomic Nervous System

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: victor emerson

Document Summary

All of us know several people, and among those people there is likely a diversity of personalities. As an example, it is likely that someone you know pushes the limits more than other people, taking more chances and engaging in riskier behaviour. For example, in medicine diseases can be classed as bacterial, viral, autoimmune, etc. Here, a medical analogy might be leprosy (hansen"s disease). Consider the difference between the phrases he has leprosy and. One labels the disease, the other labels the person. A psychological disorder is a syndrome (collection of symptoms) marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behaviour. (my emphasis. ) In the past, the word deviant was used, which simply implies that you are different from most other people in your culture. Now we use the term disturbed , which means dysfunctional in this context. This begs the question, what is meant by dysfunctional? .