PSY342H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psych, Dsm-5, Tuff
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Paradigms diagnosing & treating disorders: way of thinking = paradigm, current way of thinking = zeitgeist, ex. homosexuality used to be taboo, now the zeitgeist is that they are okay. Sucking mother scheme (cid:224) sucking other things (like thumb) (cid:224) licking (cid:224) eating: ex. start taking go train to school instead of car (doing the same task differently, assimilation, using current schemes to interpret eternal world, ex. using scheme for romcom to interpret movie upset when broken, accommodation (the mechanism, adjusting old schemes & creating new ones to better fit envt, schemas are consistently broken, new patterns consistently found, ex. The stuff we need is attended to: add: not good at paying attention, not good at filtering, lasts second 1 second, unlimited capacity filtered after second (cid:224) short term memory/ working memory (consciousness, contains stuff we attend to, stm is a component of wm, consciousness, limited capacity.
