PSYC 2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: General Social Survey, Cjoh-Dt, Anxiety Disorder
24 Feb 2014
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Today: fitness to stand trial, also prevalence of mental disorder. Middle (mental state at time of offence): thursday. Should have been working on it start it now. We"re about the same average as last term"s. Can come and look over the questions. Distribution is skewed towards the upper end- fine. The plan is not to scale the marks. Do not predict this to change much for the final. Monday, tuesday, wednesday professor has office hours 11:30 to 12:30. Tamara would be the best one to ask about the assignment. Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorder: look for symptoms, diagnose, axis 1 serious disorders (schizo, bipolar, affective, mood disorders, axis 2 personality disorders (we"ll discuss more in psychopathy section) Developed by apa (american psychiatric association: has been around for many years, 1952- first time it was published (small) Wanted to increase the reliability of diagnoses. All psychologists should look for same symptoms, diagnose in same way.
