PSY100H1 Chapter Notes -Thalamus, Bipolar Disorder, Limbic System
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Three criteria for whether behavior represents psypathogy - 1. Does the behavior deviate from cultural norms: is the behavior manipulative, is the behavior causing problems to the individual? etiology - factors that contribute to the development of a disorder. Dsm - agnosticism and statistical manual of mental diseases. Difference in psychological assessment between simple and strucuted interviews - 1. Clinical interviews are less structured and depend on the therapists" experience: structued interview methods follow a more scripped outline comorbidity - concept that mental disorders commonly overlap one another. Dissociative disorders and an example of one type - involves disruptions of identity of memory and of conscious awareness. Ex: dissociative identity theory dissociative identity theory - - two of more distinct identities in an individual. One theory is that abused children especially common for females disassociate the abuse as happening to outside of themselves.
