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To be generalisable, a study must have both:
1. Internal validity: a valid design
2. External validity: applicability to situations outside the laboratory
This term: refers to problematic patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour that
disrupt an individual's sense of wellbeing or social or occupational functioning.
Psychopathology
Psychodynamic theorists distinguish between three broad classes of
psychopathology. What are they? (NPP)
1. Neuroses: enduring problems in living that cause distress or dysfunction
2. Personality disorders: chronic, severe disturbances that substantially inhibit the
capacity to love and to work
3. Psychoses: gross disturbances involving a loss of touch with reality
Cognitive-behavioural clinicians integrate an understanding of?
Classical and operant conditioning with a cognitive-social perspective.
The biological approach looks for?
,The roots of mental disorders in the brain's circuitry, such as neurotransmitter
dysfunction, abnormalities of specific brain structures or dysfunction anywhere
along a pathway that regulates behaviour or mental processes.
A systems approach explains?
An individual's behaviour in the context of a social group, such as a couple,
family or larger group
Evolutionary psychologists could explain psychopathology in at least three ways.
What are they?
(a) as random variation likely to be weeded out by natural selection
(b) as the result of broader population pressures that select rates of genes in the
population that can be either functional or dysfunctional depending on the other
genes an individual inherits
(c) as the maladaptive environmental 'tuning' of psychological mechanisms that
are normally
adaptive.
This term: is the capacity of individuals to behave in ways that promote their
emotional and social wellbeing
Mental health
This term: implies the existence of a clinically recognisable set of symptoms and
behaviours that cause distress to the individual and impair their ability to
function as usual
A mental disorder
,This term: include the wide range of emotional and behavioural abnormalities that
affect people throughout their lives
Mental health problems
Name some contemporary approaches to psychopathology
Psychodynamic
Cognitive-behavioural
Biological approach
Systems approach
Evolutionary
This theory argues that diagnosis is a way of stigmatising individuals a society
considers deviant. It can be dangerous as it turns people into 'patients' whose
subsequent actions are interpreted as part of their craziness
Labelling Theory (Szasz, 1974)
Minh is a young woman who seems to be unlucky in love. She can easily become
involved in a relationship, but then often decides to break up whenever things
look like becoming more serious — she cannot make a commitment to another
person. She has abruptly ended her last three relationships, all within the space
of two years. (Classify her as one of the following: normal, neurotic, personality
disordered or psychotic)
Personality disorder
This model proposes that people with an underlying vulnerability may exhibit
symptoms under stressful circumstances. It may be biological, such as a genetic
propensity for anxiety symptoms caused by overactivity of norepinephrine; or
, environmental, stemming from events such as a history of neglect, excessive
parental criticism or uncontrollable painful events in childhood
Diathesis-stress model
This is the leading cause of death for the ages of 15-44.
Suicide
I have a fear of public speaking. This is which type of anxiety disorders?
Social Phobia
______ refers to problematic patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour that disrupt
an individual's sense of well-being, social or occupational functioning:
Psychopathology
Among the most common symptoms exhibited by children with attention-deficit
hyperactivity is:
Impulsiveness
The diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5 are based on a(n) ________ approach
Biopsychosocial
Leroy refuses to dance because of an intense, irrational fear of being negatively
evaluated by others. Leroy most likely has a(n) _____ phobia.
Social
For the last twelve months, Lloyd has not been able to control his worries about
circumstances in his life. Lloyd's symptoms are most typical of:
Generalised anxiety disorder
Aaron Beck calls the mechanisms by which a depressed person transforms
neutral or positive information in a depressive direction:
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS GRADED A++ 100%
GUARANTEED PASS
To be generalisable, a study must have both:
1. Internal validity: a valid design
2. External validity: applicability to situations outside the laboratory
This term: refers to problematic patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour that
disrupt an individual's sense of wellbeing or social or occupational functioning.
Psychopathology
Psychodynamic theorists distinguish between three broad classes of
psychopathology. What are they? (NPP)
1. Neuroses: enduring problems in living that cause distress or dysfunction
2. Personality disorders: chronic, severe disturbances that substantially inhibit the
capacity to love and to work
3. Psychoses: gross disturbances involving a loss of touch with reality
Cognitive-behavioural clinicians integrate an understanding of?
Classical and operant conditioning with a cognitive-social perspective.
The biological approach looks for?
,The roots of mental disorders in the brain's circuitry, such as neurotransmitter
dysfunction, abnormalities of specific brain structures or dysfunction anywhere
along a pathway that regulates behaviour or mental processes.
A systems approach explains?
An individual's behaviour in the context of a social group, such as a couple,
family or larger group
Evolutionary psychologists could explain psychopathology in at least three ways.
What are they?
(a) as random variation likely to be weeded out by natural selection
(b) as the result of broader population pressures that select rates of genes in the
population that can be either functional or dysfunctional depending on the other
genes an individual inherits
(c) as the maladaptive environmental 'tuning' of psychological mechanisms that
are normally
adaptive.
This term: is the capacity of individuals to behave in ways that promote their
emotional and social wellbeing
Mental health
This term: implies the existence of a clinically recognisable set of symptoms and
behaviours that cause distress to the individual and impair their ability to
function as usual
A mental disorder
,This term: include the wide range of emotional and behavioural abnormalities that
affect people throughout their lives
Mental health problems
Name some contemporary approaches to psychopathology
Psychodynamic
Cognitive-behavioural
Biological approach
Systems approach
Evolutionary
This theory argues that diagnosis is a way of stigmatising individuals a society
considers deviant. It can be dangerous as it turns people into 'patients' whose
subsequent actions are interpreted as part of their craziness
Labelling Theory (Szasz, 1974)
Minh is a young woman who seems to be unlucky in love. She can easily become
involved in a relationship, but then often decides to break up whenever things
look like becoming more serious — she cannot make a commitment to another
person. She has abruptly ended her last three relationships, all within the space
of two years. (Classify her as one of the following: normal, neurotic, personality
disordered or psychotic)
Personality disorder
This model proposes that people with an underlying vulnerability may exhibit
symptoms under stressful circumstances. It may be biological, such as a genetic
propensity for anxiety symptoms caused by overactivity of norepinephrine; or
, environmental, stemming from events such as a history of neglect, excessive
parental criticism or uncontrollable painful events in childhood
Diathesis-stress model
This is the leading cause of death for the ages of 15-44.
Suicide
I have a fear of public speaking. This is which type of anxiety disorders?
Social Phobia
______ refers to problematic patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour that disrupt
an individual's sense of well-being, social or occupational functioning:
Psychopathology
Among the most common symptoms exhibited by children with attention-deficit
hyperactivity is:
Impulsiveness
The diagnostic criteria in the DSM-5 are based on a(n) ________ approach
Biopsychosocial
Leroy refuses to dance because of an intense, irrational fear of being negatively
evaluated by others. Leroy most likely has a(n) _____ phobia.
Social
For the last twelve months, Lloyd has not been able to control his worries about
circumstances in his life. Lloyd's symptoms are most typical of:
Generalised anxiety disorder
Aaron Beck calls the mechanisms by which a depressed person transforms
neutral or positive information in a depressive direction:
