PSYC 241 Midterm: PSYC 241-FALL 2010-Midterm Notes
16 Oct 2011
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Psychological abnormality: refers to behavior, speech, or though that impairs the ability of a person to function in a way that is generally expected of him or her, in the context where the unusual functioning occurs. Mental illness: same meaning, but more of a medical cause than a psychological one. Statistical concept : frequency of behavior or thought defines abnormality. Personal distress: frequent, but not essential feature of abnormality. Personal dysfunction: failures of internal mechanisms to perform naturally selected functions . Diagnosis by an expert: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm- Iv-tr), international classification of mental and behavioral disorders (icd-10) Dsm-i/ii: published by the american psychiatric association, very brief, contained vague descriptions of the diagnostic categories, only 106 categories compared to the current"s 407, focused on internal and unobservable processes. Dsm-iv/iv-r: comprehensive literature reviews, reanalysis of old data sets, addition of new data.
