PSYB32H3 Chapter 2: Lecture 2 - Chapter 2 (Paradigms)
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Exam not need to know everything in chapter. Focus knowing in book, know quite well also in lec. notes. 5 paradigms: biological paradigm researcher looking at mri. Neuroimaging: psychodynamic approach, humanist/existential approach on psychopathology, pavlov and classical conditioning behavioral therapy, aaron beck psychiatrist and his theory of cognition and depression. Basic assumptions on how we understand or treat disorder. Gather or interpret data assessing subject differ. Biological paradigm model builds itself after disease and medical paradigm. Symptoms have biological cause or biological interplay e. g. runny nose virus biological markers and use investigated tool and research techniques to determine whether or not there in biological cause. Behavioral geneticist - genes carrier of genetic information expresses our. Study of individual differences impart by difference in genetic makeup. Genotype and environment job-more likely to be anxious. Genetic makeup not static even though born with it. e. g. depression may or may not become depressed in life. But likelihood of becoming is high because genetically predisposed.
