PSY240H5 Lecture 3: Lecture 3 Part 1 For those of you who missed class, these notes have all the lecture slides and my own notes taken integrated together in one neat word document. Great for last minute studying!
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Hard to figure out the exact cause of a disorder: causes vs. risk factors, variables. Cause must exist for a disorder to occur. Ptsd doesn"t occur unless the person has an anxiety provoking. Something that guarantees the occurence of the disorder. If someone has lots of hopelessness, it"s a sufficient cause for depression to be brought out in the individual. Increases the probability of a particular mental disorder to occur. Parental rejection in early life will increase the probability that the person will have relationship issues later in life: causal factors. If a person loses their parent early in childhood increases the probability that they are going to engaged in antisocial behaviour later on in adulthood. Getting a really bad grade in a course, causes stress and signs of depression. Maintains maladaptive behaviour that is already occurring. A condition that maintains w/e dysfunctional behaviour is occuring.
