PSYC 3140 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Emil Kraepelin, Bipolar Disorder, Psychology
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Psychopathology is the development of abnormal: behaviour, thoughts or cognition, feelings or emotions. Emil kraepelin: created a classification system to establish the biological nature of mental illnesses, proposed two major groups of severe mental disorders, dementia praecox (early term for schizophrenia, manic-depressive psychosis ( now called bipolar disorder) Self-stigma the tendency to internalize mental health stigma and see oneself in more negative terms as a result of experiencing a psychological problem. Paradigm a set of basic assumptions, a general perspective, that defines how to: conceptualize and study a subject, gather and interpret relevant data, think about a particular subject. Injects inevitable biases into the definition and collection of data and may also affect the interpretation of facts. Biological paradigm: mental disorders caused by aberrant or defective biological processes. Behavioural genetics: study of individual differences in behavioural attributable to differences in genetic make up. Neuroscience the study of the brain and the nervous system.
