PSY 325- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 27 pages long!)
30 Nov 2017
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On average, 1/5 canadians struggle with mental illness. 3% of employees miss work due to mental illness. 1/5 adolescents and 1/3 adults feel that their mental health needs are met. Inhumane treatment, experiments: until medicines came out and people began to see solutions. Psy lecture 2 biological contributions to psychological disorders. It"s (cid:374)ot just (cid:862)all i(cid:374) (cid:455)our head(cid:863) or fi(cid:454)ed (cid:271)(cid:455) positi(cid:448)e thi(cid:374)ki(cid:374)g: challenges of biological theories, there are no definitive answers yet still lots of questions! Humans are confusing: the role of environment/choices is still immense and mostly unaccounted for, biolog(cid:455) does(cid:374)"t e(cid:374)tirel(cid:455) predi(cid:272)t (cid:271)eha(cid:448)iour. It pushes the medical/biological approach (treating via meds) instead of embracing a more holistic method: drug therapy, agonists increase neurotransmitter activity, antagonists decrease neurotransmitter activity. Lead to atypical antipsychotics like risperdal: antidepressants, monoamine oxidase inhibitors, tricyclic antidepressants, selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssri, like prozac or zoloft)
