PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Arachnophobia, Agoraphobia

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Benjamin Cheung, Simon Lolliot

Document Summary

Psychological disorders are disorders usually associated with the mind and is linked in many way to neuroscience as many times there are scientific reasoning such as abnormal levels of hormone, or endorphins that can cause certain psychological disorders. Abnormal psychology is the study of people who suffer from psychological disorders. Harmful/disturbing to the individual i: disturbing to others, not shared by many members of the population, does not make sense to the average person b. c. Insanity is a legal term with the purpose to differentiate between people who can be held responsible for their crimes (the sane) and those with psychological disorders (the insane) Provides a way for psychologists to diagnose patients i: contains symptoms of all psychological disorders, doesn"t contain causes because different perspectives disagree. Accept/use ideas from many perspectives: categories of disorders. Intern"s syndrome a: the tendency to see in oneself the characteristics of disorders about which one is learning, not a psychological disorder b.