PSYC06H3 Lecture Notes - Classical Conditioning, Specific Phobia, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Many ways in defining abnormal, but none of the definitions are complete, many ways of constituting it, but it is hard to cover all that we mean by this term. Theories and origins of abnormal behaviour=etiology is the study of the origins of behaviour. Not trying to say by resisting medical model, resist medicine, and use symptom and disease theology, clinical psychology is different, where a disease that is postulated has the same symptoms as the disease (sadness and depression) Difficulties with classifying of behavioural disorders, if a person talks about all their symptoms, you must categorize them to inform how you treat them. There are many issues with classifying, how do clinicians go about making decisions. The clinician is more often right than wrong too, but computer will outperform. Once you know what diagnosis to give patient, you know how to treat them, this derails over and over again (this example for medical community)