PSY240H1 Chapter 2: Chapter 2 Key Terms & Notes
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Extraordinary people albert ellis who suffered from irrational beliefs about public speaking associated with rational-emotive therapy. Theory: set of ideas that provides a framework for asking questions about a phenomenon, as well as gathering and interpreting information about that phenomenon. Vulnerability-stress model: having biological, psychological, and social approaches integrated to develop comprehensive models of the many factors that lead some people to develop a mental disorder. A person must carry a vulnerability to disorder in order to develop it, in order for the person to develop the disorder, they must experience some sort of stress or trigger. Biological approach: for example, phineas gage view that biological factors cause and should be used to treat abnormality. Neurotransmitters: biochemical"s that act as messengers, carrying impulses form one neuron, or nerve cell to another in the brain and in other parts of the nervous system. Neuron has a cell body and branch like structures called dendrites, which receive impulses from adjacent neurons.
