PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Oedipus Complex, Anorexia Nervosa, Albert Bandura

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3140
• Professor: Joel Goldberg

Document Summary

A theory is a set of ideas that provides a framework for asking questions about a phenomenon, and for gathering and interpreting information about that phenomenon. Many contemporary theorists recognize that many pathways can all lead to the same end the development of a specific disorder. Biological, psychological, and social approaches are being integrated to develop comprehensive models of the many factors that lead some people to develop a given mental disorder: vulnerability-stress models or or diathesis-stress models. The vulnerability-stress model says that it takes both an existing vulnerability to a disorder and a. Only when the vulnerability and the stress come together in the same individual does the full- trigger, or stress, to create the disorder. blown disorder emerge. Integrative models of psychopathology suggest that biological, social, psychological factors all affect one another in feedback loops that maintain and enhance psychopathological processes. 25-year-old construction foreman, victim of a bizarre accident.