PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Mood Disorder, Malingering, Amygdala
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In the past, some behaviours (i. e. , being left handed) was considered pathological or a disease/illness. Almost all cultures, since recorded history, said that schizophrenia is abnormal behaviour. Abnormal behaviour is behaviour that deviates form the statistically normal (or average) You want to gather data, empirically measure it, and find an average. Ex: how do we measure how happy you are: the only way to do this in psychology is through self-report via questionnaires. o. The most common way of measuring depression is through the bbck. It is about 20 questions, and from a scale of 1 to 10, you select a way that pertains to you. On dsm, they have included common behaviours that are unfavourable, and excluded abnormal behaviour that are favourable, but included normal behaviours that are unfavourable . Violence towards another person is considered abnormal. There are other factors that occurs that may override statistical: persistence and age of onset.
