PSYCH101 Chapter Notes -Twin, Autism Spectrum, Asperger Syndrome

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

Cognitive perspective: mental illness originates from interruption in cognitive functions. There aren"t people that think about different perspectives. Usually there"s something biologic, cognitive, and behavioural and the balance may be different for different people and some might have lot of impairment and others may have a small impairment. Behavioural perspective: mental illness originates from learned maladaptive behaviours. The idea is to think that maybe behaviours cause you to get a mental disorder, or keep it going/making it worse. Behavioural perspective: focused on the essence of depression is a low rate of behavior and this causes the other symptoms. Cognitive perspective: low rate of behavior caused by core schemas, that may be maladaptive, thinking im defective, or thinking what you do leads to failure. Theses maladaptive thought patterns naturally may not allow you to do what you do normally. Predisposing causes in place before onset of disorder (make a person vulnerable to getting a disorder, this may be also learned beliefs)