PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Memory Span, Abnormal Psychology, Working Memory
10 Sep 2015
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Lecture 1: people who suffer from psychological disorders can have intact intellectual abilities. Its not easy to label someone as abnormal / normal. Slide 10: one way we define abnormal behavior is by statistical infrequency, bell curve/normal distribution, whenever we test something in a population we have an average, in keeping with the digit spam experiment, we tested the working memory. Its abnormal but its more complex then that: if you get >12 correct = less frequent. Is this abnormal or should we praise them for their ability: ex: average hockey shots a player takes per year, 20 vs 200. Would we call them abnormal: labeling someone as abnormal is harder than that. Slide 11: case study: man"s room: nick, a single, 26 year old, grocery clerk, complained that he has a problem with shit. He was referred to a mental clinic by a pastoral council. Whom he had been seeing for the past 6 month, for interpersonal problems.
