PSY BEH 11C Lecture 10: Chapter 14 Lecture Notes (Psychological Disorders) Lec 10-15
18 Apr 2018
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Psych 11c lecture (chapter 14 psychological disorders) Somatogenic hypothesis: mental disorders can be traced back to injury or illness (physical cause) Psychogenic hypothesis: symptoms arise via psychological factors (thinking pattern, stressors, etc. ) Diathesis stress model: one set of factors (genetics, brain, illness) creates a predisposition for disorder and a different set of factors (environment, culture, family, etc. ) creates trigger which turns potential disorder to actual disorder. Cognitive behavioral factors: normal behavior is learned and can be unlearned. Psychopathology is different from everyday problems (anxiety, depression, etc. ) Behaviors and thoughts must be deviates from cultural norms, maladaptive (gets in the way of living life), self-destructive (personal distress, threatens others in community), gets in the way of relations with others. 46% will experience one mental disorder, 28% will experience at least two. Gathering info about an individual to diagnose incl. structured interviews (series of questions in a specific sequence), self-report measures (questionnaires), projective tests (tat, rorschach), neuropsychological methods (mri, pet)
