PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Cognitive Therapy, Albert Bandura, Token Economy
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Typically follows the medical model: mental disorder occurs because of some sort of neurobiological antecedent, reason for the issue can be found in the body. Behaviour genetics: an approach in which we try to understand disorders; the study of individual differences in behaviour that are attributable in part to genetics, genotype vs. phenotype. Born with genotype; it is inherited; it is the unobservable genetic constitution that forms genetic makeup. Phenotype product of genotype and environment; individual"s observable, behavioural characteristics. A disorder is not inherited genetically, but it can have genetics that leave us predisposed to presenting with the phenotype of the disorder. With a genetic predisposition, we are at a greater risk of having a particular disorder: family method. When both twins have the disorder = concordance. To the extent that a predisposition for a mental disorder can be inherited, concordance for the disorder should be greater genetically for mz than dz twins: adoptees method.
