PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Heredity, Intellectual Disability, Methamphetamine

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 309
• Professor: Gordon Hall

Document Summary

Views of abnormality: the most widely used classification system, diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (5th edition) dsm-5, aspects of judging psychopathology, distress, dysfunction, deviance, dangerousness. 4ds: dysfunction, distress, deviance, and dangerous: 1. Dysfunction: when behaviors, thoughts, and feelings interfere with the person"s ability to function in daily life. Distress: behaviors and feelings that cause distress to the individual or others around him/her. Not all rare or uncommon conditions are abnormal: e. g. high intelligence is uncommon, does that mean it is abnormal, 4. Guidelines for assessing abnormality (cont. : the 4 d"s are guidelines, not rules, how much emotional pain must be suffered before we consider it distressing, there is no real line between normal and abnormal. How common are mental disorders: prevalence: percentage of people in a population (number of current cases) with a disorder at a given time, lifetime prevalence: total proportion of people in a population who have ever had a disorder.