PSYCH 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Observational Learning, Operant Conditioning, Coffeemaker
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Marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual"s cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior. Disturbed or dysfunctional thoughts, emotions, or behaviors are maladaptive: must impair dysfunctioning, separate anxiousness/depression from disorders, decided by: Biopsychosocial factors of psychological disorders: biological influences: evolution, individual genes, brain structure, chemistry, psychological influences. No matter what i do, it won"t help so just stop doing it. There may be cultural backgrounds to what we call with. Diagnostic classification in psychiatry and psychology psychological disorders. Icd and dsm o: dsm helps us assess whether or not someone has a disorder. How many symptoms: predicts the disorder"s future course, suggests appropriate treatment, prompts research into its causes. American psychiatric association: describes disorders and estimates their occurrence. Changes: some label changes, new or altered diagnoses, new categories. Dsm-5 criticism: antisocial personality disorder and generalized anxiety disorder did poorly on field trials, dsm-5 contributes to pathologizing of everyday life, system labels are society"s value judgements.
