PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes -Existential Therapy, Countertransference, Joseph Wolpe
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Ch. 2 current paradigms and the role of cultural factors 10/1/2013 2:12:00 pm. Paradigm: a set of basic assumptions that outline the particular universe of scientific inquiry, it has profound implications for how scientists operate. People whose research is based on shared paradigms are committed to the same rules and standards for scientific practice. The biological paradigm: mental disorders are caused by aberrant biological processes = medical model/ disease model. Germ theory: external symptoms were assumed to be produced through infection of the body by minute organisms and viruses. Medical illnesses can differ widely from one another in their causes, but they all share 1 characteristic: in all of them, some biological process is disrupted/ not functioning normally. Behavior genetics: the study of individual differences in behavior that are attributable in part to differences in genetic makeup. Product of an interaction btw the genotype and the environment. Whether it"ll eventually endanger the phenotypic behavior disorder depend on environment and experience.
