PS280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Operant Conditioning, Scientific Method, Interpersonal Psychotherapy
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What is abnormal behaviour: statistical infrequency, violation of norms, personal distress, disability or dysfunction, unexpectedness, diagnostic & statistical manual (dsm-5, no one definition, by itself, yields a fully satisfactory definition. Psychopathology: scientific study of psychological disorders. Clinical description: prevalence and incidence, onset and course. The supernatural tradition: demons and witches, stress and melancholy, treatments for possession, the moon and the stars. The biological tradition: hippocrates and galen. The psychological tradition: moral therapy, psychoanalytic theory. Everything had a meaning: humanistic theory. The scientific method and an integrative approach to pathology: multidimensional models. Diathesis-stress model: we all have a genetic predisposition for a system within us that gets impacted, vulnerability, biologically based, looks to inheritance, many people can have vulnerability without it manifesting itself->apply a stressor and it shows itself. Neurotransmitters: agonists, antagonists, inverse agonists, glutamate and gaba, serotonin, norepinephrine, dopamine. Behavioural and cognitive science: conditioning, learned helplessness, social learning. Modelling, observational learning: prepared learning, cognitive science and the unconscious.
