PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Self-Actualization, Nocturnal Enuresis, Gestalt Psychology
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Paradigm: conceptual framework or approach within which a scientists works. Assumptions, dictate which we understand and treat disorders, how to treat disorders, how to conceptualize and study a subject /patient, how to gather and interpret data, assessing a subject: biological paradigm: Genetic info, express dna , (family method) Psychopathology, study of individual, individual differences, in behavior that are attributable in part to differences in genetic makeup. Genotype: genetic constitutions fixed, born with it, inherit, unobservable. e. g. : likelihood depression. Totality of observable, behavioral characteristic: both genotype environment e. g. : anxiety. Second degree relatives: share 25% genetic makeup. Study whether disorder have genetic makeup, looking at predisposition for mental disorder in a family. Present 1st degree relatives probands should have disorder at higher rate. Genetic predisposition is present, 1st degree relatives of index cases (probands) should have disorder at higher rate than that found in the general population.
