Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Video Game Addiction, Cultural Bias, Observer-Expectancy Effect
27 Feb 2013
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Final exam scheduled for friday april 19th 2pm. Dsm is a work in progress, never really done. Classification system evolves over time and is never perfect. Dsm: diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. Dsm 1 1952 60 disorders. Dsm 4 1994 300+ disorders: extensive field trials reliability, validity. Dsm 4 tr 2000: tr means text revision, classification stayed the same, description provided of all the disorders was rewritten. Dsm 5 is to come out this year. Dsm 4 tr definition of a mental disorder. Must not be merely an expectable or culturally sanctioned response to an event (ex: death of a loved one) Must be considered a manifestation of a behavioural, psychological, or biological dysfunction; in most cases it s a little bit of everything. Not just deviant behavior (political, religious, sexual) Not just a conflict between individual and society. When diagnosing we are classifying disorders not people: person with schizophrenia, not schizophrenic.
