PSYC 201 Study Guide - Final Guide: Caudate Nucleus, Derealization, Antipsychotic

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 201
• Professor: Peter Van Der Velde

Document Summary

Psychological disorders: the presence of a group of symptoms that create signi cant distress; impair work, school, family, relationships, or daily living; or lead to signi cant risk or harm. Symptoms: cognitive, emotional, behavioural, psychosis: impaired perception and comprehension, plus disorganized behaviour , hallucinations: vivid mental images, delusions: false beliefs. Abnormal psychology: the scienti c study of psychological disorders. Canadian statistics: (top to bottom: anxiety disorder: 12. 2, mood disorder: 6. 7, eating disorder: 2. 5, schizophrenia: 0. 3, suicide 2% Common processes in depression and anxiety disorders: selective perception: seeing only the negative features of an event, magni cation: exaggerating the importance of undesirable events, overgeneralization: drawing board negative conclusions on the basis of a single insigni cant event. Other disorders: somatic symptoms and related disorders: excessive thought, feelings, and behaviours related to somatic symptoms, somatic symptoms disorders, cause distress and signi cant disruption in life, excessive health-relied anxiety, concern has lasted over 6 years.