PSYD33H3 Lecture Notes - Psychopathology, Agreeableness, Schizotypal Personality Disorder
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Symptom of schizophrenia is overinclusive thinking; they are disconnected from reality latent inhibition basically filtering what you don"t need. Dsm, diagnostic and statistical model why is it statistical? b/c insurance companies actually use it --since patients are covered by ohip, any diagnosis ; Dsm1 was introduced in 1952 and was largely influenced by psychoanalysis this was highly subjective, based on theory and less on science. Revised to dsm3 in 1980 one radical change. We are now in the era of dsm5 one of the radical changes is the movement away from categorical approaches to dimensional approaches and the lead disorders are the personality disorders. Should we use dimensional approach and is it ok to use the 5 factor. Neil inventory revised- measures the five domains of the 5factor model. Five factor model canoe (stands for conscientiousness, openness, neuroticism, agreeableness ) Factor analysis of trait descriptors of terms in the dictionary that we use to describe ppl.
