PSY 1205 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Catatonia, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Implicit-Association Test
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Culture influences presentation of symptoms and what is considered abnormal. Dsm-5 defines abnormality in us, uses thresholds (have it or you don"t). Helps diagnose and treat properly (sometimes held back by stigma) Biological, psychological or developmental dysfunction in individual. Clinically significant disturbance in behavior emotional regulation, or cognitive function. Observational: use reports from people that know the person or the clinician makes observation. Control group necessary (but sometimes unethical to not treat someone with depression for example) or impossible to achieve same factors and control only one variable. Etiology (causes/set of causes): for most disorders, exact cause is unknown. Retrospective: looking back in time at previous influences. Hypothesis, control group (random assignment), statistical significance (p-value
