Psychology 2042A/B Chapter 1: Ch.1 textbook notes for distance studies summer course

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2042A/B
• Professor: Alvin Segal

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American psychiatric association defines a disorder as a clinically significant behavioral or psychological pattern that occurs in an individual and that is associated with distress, impairment, increased risk of death, pain, disability, or important loss of freedom. Individual"s reactions to circumstances-- with the interface of the individual with other people or environmental conditions. Emphasizes behavioural is inextricably linked with the larger world in which it is embedded. Developmental norms: the typical rates of growth, sequences of growth, and forms of physical skills, language, cognition, emotion, and social behavior. Developmental standards used to determine when something is wrong. Behavioural indicators of disorders-table 1-1 p. 3 (quantitative differences for developmental norms): Abrupt changes in behaviour: outgoing adolescent turns solitary. Normal for a child to display fear, only a problem if it occurs excessively, is extremely intense, does not weaken over time, or is shown in harmless situations. Sequence in which behaviour develops is not seen at all in normal growth.