PSY - Psychology PSY 30300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Research, National Comorbidity Survey, Etiology
27 Jan 2017
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Pathology (illness), psyche (mind), ology (the study of something) Practice applies those ideas to real life problems/issues. Take a theory & knowledge (cognitive theory) and apply it to real life problems. An in-depth look at a single instance of a disorder. Pro: that one individual person is studied in great depth = lots of information about the person. Con: has significant shortcuts- only studying one person. Want to establish things that are true to all people. This method only studies one person, cannot generalize. Approach which defines disorders in terms of signs and symptoms (e. g. This disorder is characterized by the following symptoms . Does not define disorders in terms of their causes. A group of signs & symptoms which tend to appear together. Assumed to be a part of the same disorder. What kind of impact it has on the person or people around them. How deviant can you be before it is considered abnormal .
