Psychology 1000 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Michael Atkinson

Document Summary

Syphilis was first biological thing to be seen to create mental disorder. Everyone has some vulnerability to a mental disorder. Assumes that psychological disorders differ in degree, from normal personality functioning. Representing people along basic personality or symptom dimensions. Different personality traits give different disorders, but the strength of each trait is different (and thus specialized) But so detailed that 50% don"t fit a category. Once a diagnostic label is attached to someone. It"s a lot easier to accept the label as a description of the individual rather than their behavior. Becomes harder to look at the person"s behavior objectively. Competency: defendant"s state of mind at the time of the judicial hearing. Canada now has option for guilty but mentally ill . Frequency and intensity of anxiety responses are out of proportion. 4 components subjective-emotional: feelings of tension cognitive: subjective feelings of uneasiness, sense of danger, feeling of inability to cope physiological responses behavioral responses: avoiding situations.