PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Canadian Psychological Association, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Prefrontal Cortex
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Chapter 2 current paradigms and the role of cultural factors. 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. Paradigm conceptual framework/approach within the scientist works: specify what problems scientists will investigate and how they will go about the investigation. Injects inevitable biases into the definition and collection of data and may also effect the interpretation of facts. Biological paradigm continuation of the somatogenic hypothesis: often referred to as the medical model/disease model. For a time, the germ theory was the paradigm of medicine but it soon became apparent that this theory could not account for all diseases. Biological paradigm was the dominant paradigm in canada and elsewhere from late 1800s middle of 20th century. Psychopathy is viewed as caused by the disturbance of some biological process.
