PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Psychodynamics, Unconditional Positive Regard, Mania
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The role of paradigms: a set of basic assumptions a clinician will make. A general perspective that defines how to conceptualize, study a subject, patient, how to gather and interpret data and how to think about the subject. Ex: psychiatrist believes in medication alters neurochemistry to alter behaviour (their paradigm= a biological approach) Ex: psychotherapist psychogenic original beliefs to problems. Mental disorders arise due to some neurobiological antecedent. Behavioural genetics: study of individual difference in behaviour that are attributable to differences in genetic makeup: some sort of clue if a disease/ illness has a genetic component to it, genotype vs. phenotype. Phenotype: observable behavioural characteristics product of genotype and environmental factors (ex: anxiety level in person) Can have the genetics that leave you pre-disposed to presenting w/ the phenotypes of this disorder (schizophrenia, anxiety, depression) but not inherited. One disorder that is inherited= huntington"s disease: know this b/c we use diff study methods.