PS280 Chapter 2: PS280-Chapter 2 Lecture Notes.doc
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Chapter 2: current paradigms and the role of cultural factors. List of 5 paradigms, help to explain and make sense of the data in-front of us. We have different lenses of how we look at data; way of ordering our information, way of filtering what we see; set of beliefs that shape perception. A paradigm guides the definition, examination, and treatment of mental disorders. Somewhere between a hypothesis and a theory is a paradigm. It guides our definition of mental disorders, how to make sense of it all. Biological paradigm: some conditions are highly biologically based. Continuation of the somatogenic hypothesis: mental disorders caused by aberrant (abnormal) or defective biological medical model or disease model, often referred to as the. The dominant paradigm in canada (+elsewhere) from the late 1800s until middle processes of the 20th century. Beginning to build a picture of what abnormal/defective biological processes means (@ the cell level)
