PSY 230 Lecture 3: PSY230L3

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 230
• Professor: Apajita Mohanty

Document Summary

Best way to assess/diagnosis is with numbers, but we have an appeal to doctors/ experts. A few years later dsm ii (1980: explicit behavioral criteria (based on behavior, not doing interpretations or look into past, atheoretical approach, much more detailed description, decision rules to help clinicians (less leeway) Symptom: refers to an observable behavior or state. Syndrome: constellation of symptoms that occur together or co-vary over time. Disorder: cluster of symptoms that are not accounted to by a more pervasive condition