Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Learned Helplessness, Cognitive Restructuring, Libido

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Diagnostic criteria: consistent across all age groups. No real neurological reason for people to experience these. Challenges of getting people to reveal their symptoms to a professional. Emphasis placed on physical symptoms because of the refusal to believe one has a psychological problem in need of a psychological intervention. Long-standing controversial diagnostic group (prof has never seen this. Having occasional dissociative experience not = disorder: all disorders we talk about must last a certain period of time. Dissociative disorder can be temporary and transient (lasting a bit longer) or chronic. Definition: a set of disorders characterized by disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment, ex. We"re in a nice lecture hall in university, this environment may change (memory may change, may end up in detroit with no idea how they got there, may have more than one identity [multiple personality disorder])