PSYC 3303- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 65 pages long!)
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The scientific study of abnormal behavior and psychopathology (psychological disorders). Dsm-5 and benefits & costs of diagnostic labels. Lowest score on exams 1-3 is dropped. Multiple choice (60%) and short essay (40%) Each exam will focus on new material since the previous exam. An entire class session will be devoted to each exam. Read a few comic strips from each of the sites and chose one to read more extensively. Describe your reaction to the way the psychopathology is depicted. Read a book about someone with a disorder. Scores on the exams tend to improve over the semester. Take advantage of written assignments, autobiography/biography question, and clicker points. Explicit criteria to define groups guides accumulation of knowledge about the disorder. Defining psychopathology: a ke(cid:455) (cid:862)r(cid:863) a(cid:374)d the four (cid:862)d(cid:863)s. Reliability: symptoms must be sufficiently stable over time and across settings and situations to be predictive.
