PSYB32H3 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Notes
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A paradigm is a set of basic assumptions, a general perspective, that defines how to conceptualize and study a subject, how to gather and interpret data, even how to think about a particular subject. Main paradigms being discussed are biological, psychoanalytic, humanistic and existential, learning, and cognitive. The biological paradigm follows the somatogenic hypothesis, that mental disorders are caused by aberrant biological processes. This is also referred to as the medical model or disease model. Dominant paradigm from late 1800"s to early 20th in canada and elsewhere. Hall and his ovary removal to cure mental illness. Study of difference in behavior due in part to differences in genetic make-up. Genotype is unobservable genetic constitution, phenotype is observable trait. The environment effects the phenotype, someone with a genetically high iq might not be smart due to the environment they were raised in.
