PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Intellectual Disability, Nude Beach, Sigmund Freud
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Extra prof. office hrs: tuesdays 12:30 - 1:30pm. Epidemiology: science of diagnosis, assessment, incidence and prevalence of a disorder term insanity legal term, not psychological term. Ethics: set of guidelines; laws: set of rules. Chapter 2 will not be on test 1, chapter 18 will not be on test 2. North america used dsm (diagnostic and statistical manual) -iv ; rest of world uses icd (int"l classification of diseases) version 10 first conceptualization of mental illness came from sigmund freud, called: psychoanalysis paradigm. Behaviourism paradigm: interested in observable measurable things. Humanism paradigm: client feels better once accepts themselves for who they are. 3 main paradigms of psychology: psychoanalysis, behaviourism, humanism. Current paradigm is cognitive behavioural psychology (paradigm shift from psychoanalysis to cognitive behavioural psych. ) Midterm incl. jan 7 - feb 25 lectures+ readings. Difficult to define what abnormal behaviour is. Delusion: false beliefs (most societies agree this is abnormal)
