PSY 1205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reuptake, Dsm-5, Antisocial Personality Disorder
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Etiology: most abnormal behavior causes remain a mystery. Paradigm: set of shared theoretical substance and common beliefs: used to explain the etiology of psychological disorders, most research is guided by the biopsychosocial model. Biological paradigm: looks for biological abnormalities; i. e. brain disease, injury, genetics: general paresis: paralysis caused by syphilis; hope that biological causes for other mental disorders, problem: can overemphasize medical model. Psychodynamic paradigm: unconscious mental conflicts with roots in early childhood abnormal behavior: id (pleasure, neurotic anxiety), ego (reality, neurotic anxiety, moral anxiety), superego (societal standards, moral anxiety, problem: focuses too much on childhood/unconscious conflicts. Cognitive-behavioral paradigm: views abnormal behavior and normal behavior as a product of learning: classical conditioning: pavlov; learning through association, operant conditioning: skinner; learning through consequences. Positive/negative reinforcement, punishment, extinction: break down of how people learn, where they learn, and how that influences future behavior, importance of cognitive processes during learning, problem: overlooks social and biological context of behavior.
