A02 the biological approach to psychopathology

Question 1

What are the 3 sections for the limitations

Answer 1

Humane ir inhumane
Cause and effect
Inconclusive evidence

Question 2

Who argued in the humane or inhuman limitations

Answer 2

Szasz

Question 3

What did szasz say

Answer 3

That the medical model (Bio appraoch) is inhumane and didn’t have a physical basis. And that the concept of mental illnes is invited for social control

Question 4

Other argument in human or inhumane

Answer 4

The medical mode was brought about when people would puncture hotels, or seriously haem others in order to treat them. Before it treatment was very inhumane

Question 5

Talk about cause and effect

Answer 5

No evidence to prove link is causal, it’s all correlational
E.g. schizo linked to high levels of dopamine

Question 6

Who argued in the inconclusive evidence section

Answer 6

Gottesman and shields

Question 7

What did gottesman and shields say

Answer 7

Found that in monozygotic (genetically identical) twins there was a concordance rate of 50%.
If schizo was entirely the product of genetic inheritance we might expect the figure to be 100%
This is when the diathesis stress model plays a role

Question 8

What is the diathesis stress model

Answer 8

Model that explains that the disorder itself only develops if the indv is exposed to stressful life events. The genetic inheritance guess them susceptibility to the disorder.
So it explains the role of biology and experience