PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Interpersonal Relationship, Information Processing, Heritability
12 Dec 2019
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What is the two-word term that jerome wakefield coined to define a psychological disorder. Koro and latah are two examples of specific psychological disorders. What is the main risk of using only person distress as a criterion for psychological disorder. According to diathesis-stress models (vulnerability stress models) disorders develop when a person has a pre-existing vulnerability and experiences stressful life events. Two disorders existing at the same time. Risk factors/causal factors that are different from m of f sex vs gender causes. Good or poor mental health is dictated by nature. 1 - one particular disorder can be caused by many genes. 2 - a disorder isn"t just one thing, symptoms vary from individual to individual. But predicting disorders for heritability goes down. Research is finding that there is not just one genetic marker. Instead polygenetic - i. e multiple genes for a particular disorder. The more that people are vulnerable the more their likely to have a mental health problem.
