PSY 2301 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Psyccritiques, Pseudoscience, Panic Disorder

• School: University of Iowa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 2301
• Professor: Brendan Whitney

Document Summary

Lecture 2: characterization, classification, and diagnosis of abnormal behavior: abnormality can be caused by, roughly 75% of people will meet diagnostic criteria for a mental disorder at some point in life. Define different mental disorders to ensure people receive proper services. Goal is to not label people: strengths of dsm-5, promotes research in psychopathology, epidemiology: disorder distribution in population, etiology: cause of disorder, course: how disorder plays out over time, treatment: development and evaluation. Internal validity: low: external validity: low, correlational studies: examine associates between variables for multiple people. Internal validity: high: external validity: high, experimental studies: Internal validity: better than case and correlational studies: external validity: varies across studies, meta-analyses: intergrates findings from multiple studies of similar research questions. In dsm-iv-tr, mdd was located under: mood disorders and then depressive disorders. In dsm-iv-tr, mdd could not be present when depressive symptoms are related to: bereavement. In dsm-5, mdd is located under: depressive disorders only.