Psychology 2310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Intellectual Disability, Phenylalanine, Paul Broca

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Hans

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Cognitive theorist examines schemas and beliefs and how she process info --> and how it influences her disorder. Freud: some account for all disorders within a particular category; ex. If you cant prove it wrong, it"s a bad theory (e. g. sigmund freud theories) Patients also show chronic muscle tension - control of sns. #2: adolescents who use cannabis are more likely to develop schiz as adults if they have a variant gene associated with schiz (kind of like above: behavioural research uses three forms: In all someone with disorder is identified and family is examined to see if they match the disorder: family studies - look at family and contrasting rates of disorder within the family. If mz concordance rate is greater there is a genetic component. If concordance rate in both is high - there is an important role of the shared environment. Attempt to map human genome - pinpoint defective genes.