PSYCO239 Lecture 2: Chapter 2- An Integrative Approach to Psychopathology
17 May 2016
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Psychological dimensions; from behavioural and cognitive processes, including learned helplessness, social learning, prepared learning, and even unconscious processes. Emotional in uences contribute to psychopathology, same for social and interpersonal in uences. Most scientists and clinicians believe abnormal behaviour results from multiple in uences. Behavioural in uence: jody saw graphic movie with blood - got bad reaction, reaction is unconditioned response and associated with situations similar to scene in movie (e. g. , cut it out! ) Biological in uence: jody experienced vasovagal syncope (means shrinking feeling or swoon ) - common cause of fainting. Is an overreaction if a mechanism that compensates for sudden increases in blood pressure by lowering it: inheriting strong syncope reaction puts person at risk of developing phobia, but other in uences are at work as well. Emotional in uence: affect of physiological responses such as blood pressure, heart rate, and respiration, particularly if we know rationally we have nothing to fear.
