PSYC 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: World Health Organization, Hypomania, Electrodermal Activity

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2040
• Professor: Dan Meegan

Document Summary

Revised psychopathy checklist (pcl-r) developed by psychologist. More on psychopathy in the lecture on personality disorders intelligence quotient tests (iq) origin: binet and simon (france) to identify slow learners" in school eventually became stanford-binet. Wechsler scales variety of tasks verbal and performance domains. Multiple x-rays from different angles bone (++) and brain tissue (+) block x-ray somewhat so images show structure tumours, injuries, etc. Mri done while person is performing some task psychophysiological assessment changes in nervous system that reflect emotional or psychological events other measurements: respiration, heart rate, skin conductance (electrodermal responding, aka galvanic skin response) International classification of diseases and health related problems (icd-10); published by the world health organization (icd-11 in 2018?) Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (dsm); published by the american psychiatric association; currently the dsm-5 prototypical example: subset of diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder (this slide = episode)