PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Explanatory Style, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Gerry Goldberg

Document Summary

Medical model: proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease. Diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis replaced the superstitions that people believed in the 18th century that if someone was sick or mentally ill they were under witchcraft such as demons, devils, god"s punishment etc. Three stereotypes about psychological disorders those are largely inaccurate: psych disorders are incurable, people with psych disorders are often violent and dangerous, people with psych. disorders behave in bizarre ways and are very different from normal people. Dsm scale used to diagnose disorders for patients. Axis i: (clinical disorders and conditions that need clinical attention) used to make diagnosis of a condition. Axis ii: (personality disorders and mental retardation) used to make diagnosis of condition. Axis iii: (general medical conditions such as physical disorders, allergies etc. ) Axis iv: (psychosocial stressors & environmental problems such as type of stress the individual felt in the previous year.