PSY 1102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Psychopathology, Observational Learning, Painted Faces

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Christine Boisvert

Document Summary

Reasons for curiosity: personal familiarity with psychological symptoms, knowing someone else with the disorder, hearing about how prevalent and socially devastating some disorders have become in society, wanting to learn more about mental health and human nature. Questions to keep in mind: how do we decide when a set of symptoms are severe enough to be . Patterns of thoughts, feelings, or actions that are deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional. To deviate, in general, means to vary fromwhat typically would happen. In psychology, a behavior or mental state is considered deviant by a culture when it is different from what would be expected in that culture. A disorder may also be a deviation from a typical developmental pathway. One reason to diagnose a disorder is to make decisions about treating the problem. To treat a disorder, it helps to understand the naturecause of psychological symptoms.