Psychology 2320A/B Lecture Notes - Caffeine, Psychoanalytic Theory, Biological Psychiatry

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2320A/B
• Professor: Elizabeth Hayden

Document Summary

Studying the brain (in the book read it: neuro-imaging. , the sample is going to be limited. They would act differently because they are being recorded. Research on etiology in psychopathology: analog studies of psychopathology: animal models. Usually provide greater experimental control: nonclinical samples(eg. /students) Mood induction studies: both may have problems with generalizability. Concepts in epidemiology(read the section: prevalence: the proportion of the population, incidence: the number of new occurrence of a. Modern psychiatric epidemiology: prior to 1980"s quality of information was poor, studies of adults. 1980: epidemiological catchment area (eca) study the eca may have underestimated the prevalence rates of psychiatric disorders. 1994: national comorbidity survey (ncs: studies of children are less common and are complicated. Adhd and oppositional defiant disorder if a kid had adhd more likely to have oppositional defiant disorder: girls>boys on heterotypic continuity and comorbidity. In other words although fewer females than males had disorder females tended to be more severe when ill.