Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Executive Functions, Bipolar Disorder, Ms-Dos

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Classification of mental disorders: branch of psychiatry/clinical psychology concerned with description of disorder. Theory: classification is in a sense a theory of how disorder is organized. Prediction: can predict what will happen to people that have certain factors. Expectancy fulfillment/self-fulfilling prophecy: people are given a diagnosis and learn about the features of the disorder does this mean that they start to act in ways that reflect this/shape further behaviour. Loss of information or uniqueness: not every person looks the same/act the same even when they have the same diagnosis. Boundary cases: some people will fit the category very well where others don"t/should meet the criteria but do not show certain symptoms; some cases that don"t fit a given disorder very well. Classification systems such as the dsm-iv are sometimes described as. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm): classification system for mental disorders. Rise of biological psychiatry, attempts to make psychopathology a modern science.

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