PSYC 3082 : PSYC 3082 EXAM 1
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Infantile component of one"s personality: driven by impulses; think: toddler, driven by pleasure principle. Id wants something now: superego driven by moral principles, the parent , right vs. wrong principles, ego rational, mediates between superego/id, driven by reality principle, secondary process thinking. Chapter 2 an integrative approach to psychopathology: genetic contributions to psychopathology, phenotype vs. genotype, genotype internally coded inheritable information, carried by all living organisms. Information regarding touch/pain (sensory information: of the senses only olfaction does not use the thalamus as a relay center, smell goes through the olfactory bulb and then to the hippocampus. 5: cerebral cortex the outer portion of the brain that is roughly a quarter inch to 3/8ths thick, where the majority of neurons are, designed to detect touch and pain. Chapter 3 clinical assesment, diagnosis, and research in psychopathology: what do we mean by assessment, evaluate, purposes of clinical assessment, to understand the individual, to predict behavior, to plan treatment, to evaluate treatment outcome.
