Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Hallucination, Intellectual Disability, Psychogenic Amnesia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas- De Hoog

Document Summary

Chapter 16: psychological disorders: car crash diet drug xenadrine, temporary insanity temporary psychosis not criminally responsible by reason of mental illness. Personal values of a diagnostician arbitrary and unusual beliefs: 2. Expectations of the culture a person lives in: 3. Expectations of the culture of origin: 4. Statistical deviation from the norm a highly intelligent or well-adjusted person would be abnormal: 6. Compulsivity: helps to link abnormal to normal personality function, better individual descriptions to help with treatment. Social and personal implica tions: diagnosis is accepted wrongly as a description of an individual, not the behavior difficult to look at their behavior objectively without predicting how they will act, affects how we interact with them. Insanity state of mind at the time of the crime (cid:862)(cid:374)ot guilt(cid:455) (cid:271)(cid:455) reaso(cid:374) of i(cid:374)sa(cid:374)it(cid:455)(cid:863) = la(cid:272)k of (cid:272)apa(cid:272)it(cid:455) to appreciate wrongfulness or to control their conduct not criminally responsible on account of mental disorder. Cognitive sense of danger, inability to cope: 3.