PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Intellectual Disability, Psychopathology, Normal Distribution

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY240H1
• Professor: Hywel Morgan

Document Summary

Examples of this question include many unfavorable common behaviors such as substance abuse. Cultural norms: across cultures, schizophrenia (psychosis via loss of touch with reality) is recognized as abnormal, main symptoms. Delusions thinking something that is not true. Hallucinations false sensory experiences in any of 5 sensory domains (potentially the. 6th domain of vestibular-balance: extremely difficult to diagnose children as schizophrenic, defining abnormal via cultural norms even has its pitfalls though, just like anything else. Developmental norms: at certain ages, people are expected to developed to a certain level. For frequency, intensity, and duration, you are most likely going to be using statistical components to this: when studying abnormal, you have to be very considerate of every factor. Medical disease model (currently this is the more accepted paradigm: dealing with genetics and bio. Environmental model: dealing with all environmental factors (ex stress being a, genetic model huge factor) Looking at genome and at genetic causes of abnormal behaviors.