PSY 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: American Psychiatric Association, Neurosis, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
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Intelligence is a normal bell curve of the bell curve normal is better. What is normal in one culture isn"t necessarily normal in another. Collective societies: you"re insane if you want to do better than everyone else; Individual societies: you"re insane if you don"t want to do better than everyone else. Your problems are a result of your sexual development. You"re depressed because your thinking is negative. You"re depressed because of some biological processes like chemical imbalance or. Your problems are caused by all of the above. They are used to divide disorders into neurotic and psychotic. Neurotic disorder: (any phobia, ocd): characterized by excessive, debilitating. Psychotic disorder (schizophrenia): disorders characterized by misinterpreting reality (break in reality, they see/hear things no one else does) anxiety. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Developed by american psychiatric association, along with many psychologists. Psychological disorders characterized by distressing persistent anxiety or maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety.