PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Dsm-5, Nosology, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mark Coates

Document Summary

Iq is a score on one of the intelligence tests that is used: a high iq score means that the person has a higher chance of, they do predict academic success but not intelligence. Issues: these tests can possibly predict the development of certain cognitive, most often used to help differentiate those who already have a given and possible existing brain impairments exists. Neuroimaging: pictures of the brain: ability to look inside the brain and take increasingly accurate pictures of its structure and function. Diagnosing psychological disorders rocks, behaviors: dsm-5 is classification system used in psychology, also international classification of diseases and health related. Diagnosis before 1980 disorders to the idc: in late 1960s nosology began to have a real influence on mental health professionals, idc and dsm contradicted each other, both had little reliability. Dsm-iv and dsm-iv-tr: based on sound scientific data, compatible wit idc-10, distinction originally made between organically based disorders and psychologically based disorders was eliminated.