PSYCH 2AP3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Correlation Does Not Imply Causation, Sympathetic Nervous System, Social Rejection

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AP3
• Professor: Richard B Day

Document Summary

Understand patterns of thought, emotion and behaviour considered problematic. Where psychopathology / mental disorders come from - etiology. Dsm disorder categories do not reflect the causes of mental disorders: we do not know the causes of any disorders, we do not know why or how treatments / medications work. Ideas / concepts / data and theories discussed are not always easy to organize / make sense of. To come away from this course with an understanding, you will come away confused. An educated person should always be perplexed to a certain degree because perplexity is an accurate description of our current level of understanding. Causes of mental disorders vary between disorders and from case to case. Psychological symptoms not easily duplicated / verified in non human animals. Diagnostic uncertainty: agreement (kappa) is low to moderate for most disorders, kappa= 0. 27 overall, these studies show that diagnosis is not an easy thing to do.