PSYC 1010 Chapter Notes - Chapter Module 49-53: Seasonal Affective Disorder, Dysthymia, Explanatory Style

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Proposes that abnormal behavior should be viewed and treated as a disease. Need context to determine if the behavior is abnormal or not. 4 criteria for deining abnormality: staisical frequency. Not all infrequent behavior are judged as abnormal (i. e. people with rare skills, genius) Having few drinks ater a day of stressful work is not considered abnormal, but too much may be considered as a drunk: psychological distress. Although distress occurs frequently it is not an essenial feature of abnormality. Psychological disorder - deviant and causes distress or dysfuncional thoughts / behavior. Matching a person"s symptoms to pre-established categories of psychological disorders. Diagnosic and staisic manual of mental disorders (dsm-v) Selecing a therapy helps in making a prognosis (predicion of where the disorder will be) what course the disorder will take increases the reliability in diagnosis. (answer key will be a base line)