PSY 205 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 205
• Professor: Houck

Document Summary

Medical model of abnormal behavior : proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal. Diagnosis : involves distinguishing one illness from another. Etiology : refers to the apparent causation and developmental history of an illness. Prognosis : a forecast about the probable course of an illness. Major depressive disorder : people show persistent feelings of sadness and despair and a. Bipolar disorder : marked by the experience in both depressed and manic periods. Autism spectrum disorder: characterized by profound impairment of social interaction and communication and severely restricted interests and activities, usually apparent by age 3.