PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Banana, Mental Disorder, Genetic Marker

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 1XX3
• Professor: Joe Kim

Document Summary

Skull with hole in it, and its thought that the guy survived. If someone was acting in a odd way, he was possessed with demons, so someone would dig a hole into the skull, allowing the evil spirit to come out --> sometimes the person would be much better. Judgements we use to figure out what behavior is abnormal or normal. Type of criteria someone uses to determine whether or not we diagnose someone with a mental ability is found in the book. All of group--> researchers, psychologists, and put their opinions together and re-agree on it when writing the new edition. Sometimes a disorder is not found in a new edition of the book --> controversial. She knows their involuntary, so she does it in a voluntary way so its socially acceptable. People thought they were dancing--> called it the case of st. vitus" dance.