PSY 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Differential Diagnosis, 2 On, Mental Disorder
9 Nov 2016
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Aging geriatric psychology: at some point in time, number of births and deaths will cross increasingly older population will come due to longer life expectancy, living longer is, however, associated with having to live with disease disability. Aging: time & emotion: socioemotional selectivity theory (laura carstensen) Shortened time horizon shapes goal selection and goal pursuit. Greater meaning attached to goals that promote happiness. Interestingly, same phenomenon in terminally ill young adults same shortened time horizons: negative emotion experiences (i. e. road rage, homicide) decrease with age. Age related changes in cognition: psychomotor slowing (reaction time) increases with age, changes in memory. Long term memory not affected: intelligence. How do we determine what is abnormal as it relates to psychopathology: personal suffering: subjective distress, violates normal standards of conduct, disability: harmful dysfunction, statistical approach: abnormal if rare, diagnosable: behavior conforms to speci ed patterns. Causes may exist within different contexts but express themselves in the individual.
