PSYCH101 Midterm: Psych 101 Exam 3 Complete Summary Notes

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Amanda Clark

Document Summary

Psychological disorders deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviours. Standards/deviant behaviour vary by time, context, & culture (normal for some but not others) Middle ages the devil made me do it . Cured by exorcisms and drilling holes in the skull; other brutal treatments . Reform began when it was discovered that syphilis (physical disorder) distorts the mind. Medical model psychological disorders have physical causes that can be treated (may be cured) Schizophrenia symptoms often include irrationality and incoherent speech. Dsm-iv-tr american psychiatric association"s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. System for classifying psychological disorders; diagnostic process with 16 clinical syndromes. Some critics say it casts too wide a net bringing almost any king of behaviour within psychiatry. Once we label a person, we view that person differently (labels affect our perceptions/interpretations) Many psychological disorders are diseases of the brain, not failures of character.