PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Light Therapy, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Jet Lag

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY100H1
• Professor: Ashley Waggoner Denton

Document Summary

Hard to distinguish normal/abnormal, line is blurry, vague, thin. Best you can do is to assess someone, but no method is perfect. You need to take cultural context into account. You need to see whether this behavior is adaptive or not. The symptoms of the disorder must interfere with at least one aspect of the person"s life. They used to decide that during the civil war southern slavers" running to north was abnormal. Gender identity disorder is no longer perceived as disorder. Lunacy: originally people thought mental disorder came from the moon. Mm: mental illness can happen to everyone, so hospital treat mental patient better, because they are just normal people rather than crazy ones. Tmm: illness is purely biological, they treat mental illness as physical illness caused by environment. B&d-sm: not just biological/environmental factors but take as many factors as possible. Axis 1: most disorders we cover today fall into this category.