Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Mixed Affective State, Agnosia, Weight Loss

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Laura Fazakas-de Hoog

Document Summary

The behaviour continuum: all behaviour lies on a continuum, very normal on one end and very abnormal on the other. Abnormal behaviour: personally distressing, dysfunctional and/or so culturally deviant so that other people judge it to be inappropriate of maladaptive. Surgeon general and dsm-iv definition: individual and that is associated with present distress or disability or with a significantly. Anxiety disorders: intense, frequent, inappropriate anxiety but no loss of contact with reality: phobias, panic, ocd. Mood (affective) disorders: marked disturbances in mood: depression, mania. Somatoform disorders: physical symptoms such as blindness, paralysis or pain with no physical basis. Dissociative disorders: problems of consciousness or self-identification: amnesia, multiple personalities. Schizophrenic and other psychotic disorders: disorders of thinking, perception and emotion loss of contact with reality. Substance abuse disorders personal and social problems with psychoactive substances. Sexual and gender identity disorders: sexual dysfunctions, deviant sexual behaviours, desire to be opposite sex: molestation, fetishes.