PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Identified Patient, Effect Size, Albert Bandura

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 309
• Professor: Gordon Hall

Document Summary

Review: which neurotransmitter, involved in cognition, memory, and learning is associated with. Genetic explanations: genetic makeup plays an important role in developing abnormal conditions, autonomic nervous system reactivity may be inherited, hereditary factors are implicated in alcoholism, schizophrenia, and depression, genotype: genetic makeup, phenotype: observable physical and behavioral characteristics. Biology-based treatment techniques: psychopharmacology, study of effects of psychotropic medications, medication categories, anti-anxiety drugs, antipsychotics, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, medications do not cure mental disorders, help alleviate symptoms. Mr. z is a 40-year-old businessman who presented with complaints of loss interest in his job, hobbies, and family over a period of six weeks. He acknowledged periods of profound sadness, reduced appetite with significant weight loss, insomnia, fatigue, and recurrent, thoughts of death, but denied suicidal ideation. He denied any precipitants but did admit that his expected job promotion had not materialized. Mr. z described himself as unusually serious, conservative, and relatively unable to express affection.