PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Abnormal Psychology, Personal Distress, Normal Distribution
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Course description: learn about several disorders that we call abnormal. Lesson: there is no such thing as abnormality, don"t care about the judgment and labels of other people. Hypochondriac: read about something and you think you have it. Define abnormality using statistical infrequency: normal distribution. Test something in a population, you have an average. If you got less than 2 correct (number remembering exercise) on left side of normal curve statistically infrequent, it is abnormal. If you get more than 12 correct, right side of curve don"t want to label them as dumb: need more than statistic infrequency to categorize or label someone as abnormal. Working memory mental sketch pad: how much info can you hold it in your mind long enough in order to do something with it. Example: remembering phone numbers, remembering names long enough to intro them to someone else. Does it cause person anxiety, worry, etc.
