PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dsm-5, Malingering, Intellectual Disability
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Dsm 5: can diagnose right away compared to dsm 4: statistical criteria. Psychopathology measures: ask, physiologically (sweating, heart rate etc. Substance abuse in dsm 5 is a vague definition. Dsm 5 made to make statistical criteria more useful: cultural norms, developmental norms. At differe(cid:374)t stages of de(cid:448)elop(cid:373)e(cid:374)t, (cid:455)ou (cid:272)a(cid:374) o(cid:271)ser(cid:448)e differe(cid:374)t a(cid:271)(cid:374)or(cid:373)al (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour the(cid:374) it"s. If not treated at the time it may become a problem for others around them. Some behaviours are normal at some age but abnormal at other ages: frequency, intensity, duration. Abnormal behaviour is behaviours than affect the daily functioning that interferes with your social i(cid:374)tera(cid:272)tio(cid:374)s a(cid:374)d (cid:455)our (cid:448)o(cid:272)atio(cid:374) or (cid:449)ith so(cid:373)e(cid:271)od(cid:455) else"s. Intensity: not getting out of bed vs. wanting to kill yourself. 2 etiology means: cause, progressive means (how it develops) Suggests that abnormal behaviour occurs due to your biological make-up: medical-disease models. Genetic models: hereditary, e(cid:454): depressio(cid:374), a(cid:374)(cid:454)iet(cid:455), alzhei(cid:373)er"s, concordance rate is high.
