Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Neuroticism, Fear Conditioning, Extraversion And Introversion

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

Document Summary

Can"t change the way of relating to the world and is unhappy. Thinking and behaving cause significant distress to self and others. Definition: persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions an behaviour that results in enduring emotional distress: distress is common with antisocial personality disorder. Blatant disregard for the rights of others. People with depression have worse outcome in treatment. Display problem characteristics over extended periods of time in many situations. Difficulty can be seen as one of degree (dimensions) rather than kind (categories): dimension extreme versions of otherwise normal personality variations, categories ways of relating that are different from healthy behaviour. End up being viewed in categories: either you do or you don"t have a disorder, advantage convenience, disadvantage leads clinicians to reify the disorders. Widiger: dimensional model (categorical and dimensional diagnosis: 1. Would retain more information about individuals: 2. More flexible because it would permit both categorical and dimensional differentiations: 3.