PSY100H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Twin Study, Panic Disorder
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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. Paradigms are an intrinsic part of a science, serving the vital function of indicating the rules to be followed. There are 4 major types of paradigms: biological, cognitive-behavioural, psychoanalytic, humanistic-existential. The board perspective holds that mental disorders are cused by aberrant biological processes. This paradigm has been referred to as the medical model or disease model. Louis pasteur discovered the relationship between bacteria and disease and soon thereafter postulated viruses, the germ theory of disease provided a new explanation for pathology. External symptoms were assumed to be produced through infection of the body by minute organisms and viruses. For a time, the germ theory was the paradigm of medicine but soon this theory couldn"t account for all diseases.
