Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Anxiety Disorder, Mental Disorder, Personality Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Biological factors genetic factors may create a vulnerability to anxiety disorders where clinical levels of anxiety are concerned, identical twins have a concordance rate of about 40% for anxiety disorders this suggests the significance of psychological and environmental factors. Freud believed that in phobic disorders, neurotic anxiety is displaced onto some external stimulus that has symbolic significance in relation to the underlying conflict. Schizophrenia schizophrenia - a psychotic disorder that involved severe disturbances in thinking, speech, perception, emotion, and behaviourthe term literally means. Brain abnormalities brain scans have indicated a number of structural abnormalities in the brains of schizophrenic patientsaccording to the neurodegenerative hypothesis, destruction of neural tissue can cause schizophrenia. Antisocial personality disorder people with antisocial personality disorder seem to lack a consciencein the. Childhood disorders psychological disorders can occur at any point in the lifespanmental health professionals have observed symptoms resembling clinical depression in infants, and older children exhibit a wide range of behaviour problems.