PSYC 102 Chapter 14: Psych 102 - Chapter 14

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Delroy Paulhus

Document Summary

Classifying psychological disorders: the dsm-iv: psychological disorders are often diagnosed in terms of a set of defining criteria or symptoms, dsm-iv: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, 4th. Social phobia: social phobia: an incapacitating fear of social interactions, most commonly reported fear, maximized with larger audiences, strangers, and authority figures. Somatoform disorders: body and mind: somatoform disorders: psychological disorders that focus on the physical body, medical student syndrome: students find that the various diseases learned about in class become familiar and personal. It can be adaptive for us to pay attention to medical symptoms, but if you are going nuts with it that can indicate a psychological disorder: 3 main, hypochondriasis, somatization disorder, conversion disorder. Dissociative amnesia: dissociative amnesia: a psychological disorder characterized by an inability to remember important personal information, assumed to be psychological origin, can be very general just not remembering your identity or very localized.