PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes -Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Action Potential, Sympathetic Nervous System
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Chapter2: current paradigms and the role of cultural factors. A paradigm is a set of basic assumptions, a general perspective, that defines how to conceptualize and study a subject, how to gather and interpret relevant data, even how to think about a particular subject. Central to any application to of scientific principles, in kuhn"s view, is the notion of paradigm, the conceptual framework or approach within which the scientists work. Paradigms specify what problem scientists will investigate and how they will go about the investigation. Five paradigms: biological, psycho analytic, humanistic and existential, learning, and cognitive. Current thinking about abnormal behaviour tends to be multi-faceted, and contemporary views of abnormal behaviour and its treatment tend to integrate several paradigms. The biological paradigm of abnormal behaviour is a continuation of the somatogenic hypothesis. This broad perspective holds that mental disorders are caused by aberrant biological processes. This paradigm has often been referred to as the medical model or disease model.
