PSY E111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Neurotransmitter, Unconscious Mind, Behaviorism
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Biological model: psychological disorders have a biological or medical cause explains: anxiety, mdd, schizophrenia neurotransmitter system, genetics, brain damage. Psychodynamic view: hiding problems: explains disordered thinking and behaviour as the result of repressing one"s threatening thoughts, memories, and concerns in the unconscious mind. Behaviourism: learning problems: abnormal behaviour as being learned just like normal behaviour. Cognitive perspective: thinking problems: study the way the people think, remember, and mentally organize info: see maladaptive functioning as a resulting from illogical thinking patters. Cultural relativity: term that refers to the need to consider the unique characteristics of the culture in which the person with a disorder was nurtured to be able to correctly diagnose and treat the disorder. Culture bound syndromes: disorders unique to specific cultures. Cultural syndromes: replaced culture bound may or may not be recognized as an illness within the culture but are nonetheless recognizable as a distinct set of symptoms or characteristics of distress.
