PSYC 1200 Final: Exam 6 Textbook.doc
13 Dec 2014
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Maladaptive behaviour: peoples are judged to have a psychological disorder because their everyday adaptive behaviour is impaired, 3. Personal distress: people are often viewed as disordered when only one criterion is met, diagnoses of psychological disorders involve value judgments about what represents normal or abnormal behaviour. Individuals who have especially intense emotional reactions during or immediately after the event go on to show elevated vulnerability to ptsd: symptoms usually decline gradually over time, many cases, the symptoms never completely disappear. Biological factors: a concordance rate indicated the percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder. If relatives who share more genetic similarity show higher concordance rates than relative who share less genetic overlap, the finding supports the genetic hypothesis: there is a moderate genetic predisposition to anxiety disorders. Inherited differences in temperament might make some people more vulnerable than others to anxiety disorders.
