PSYC 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5.2: Joseph Schildkraut, Twin Study, Hypervigilance

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Jordan Poppenk

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Symptomology: refer to identifying symptoms of a disorder. Etiology: the study of why people suffer from a disorder. Prevalence rate: measure of the total number of cases of the disorder in a given population. Lifetime prevalence (ltp): is the percentage of the population that will experience the disorder at some time in their life. Onset age: is the average age at which the disorder is likely to appear. Anxiety disorders: have a form of irrational fear as focus, e. g ptsd. Affective disorders: characterized by dysfunctional moods, e. g depressive disorder. Eating disorders: characterized by eating patterns that lead to insufficient or excessive food intake, e. g bulimia. People that have it will project low moods and low levels of self-esteem. Lack motivation, think everything is black and that they will never be happy. Somatic: loss of energy, insomnia or weight loss/gain: charney and weismann (1988)