PSYC 1300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Methylphenidate, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Stage Fright
16 Jan 2017
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To be abnormal, a behavior must be maladaptive, a term that refers to behavior that is poorly suited to a particular situation or function. Developing the habit of waiting until the night before to study for the test. Classifying and tracking psychological disorders: the most recent edition, the diagnostic and statistic manual of mental. Disorders, fifth edition is commonly known as dsm-5 appeared in 2013. Contains descriptions of hundreds of specific psychological disorders and lists critera that must be met in order to be diagnosed. Organizes disorders into categories based on similar symptoms: widespread use of dms manuals by mental health professionals has enables public health officials to keep track of the frequency with which various categories and individual disorders are diagnosed. Explaining psychological disorders: psychologists employ fiver theoretical perspectives to answer these questions. The biological prospective views abnormal behavior as arising from a physical cause, such as genetic inheritance, biochemical abnormalities or imbalances, structural abnormalities within the brain.
