Intro to Abnormal Psychology Flashcards
Impairment Criterion
someone who shows impairment in some domain of interpersonal functioning etc
Personal Distress Criterion
any set of behaviours that leads the individual to be concerned about their behaviour
Biomedical Model
mental disorders are physical disorders
- suggests purely physical/pharmacological treatments for all disorders
Problems with the Biomedical Model
- no biological test that allows mental disorders to be diagnosed
- the prevalence of mental disorders is still increasing
- no purely biological cause has been found yet in the DSM
Psychodynamic Model & Treatment
- symptoms have purely psychological causes
- result from maladaptive psychological responses to internal conflict
- treatment consists of bringing conflicts to the surface
Behavioural Model & treatment
mental disorders are caused by behaviour that is inappropriate, maladaptive etc, abnormal behaviour is learned
not caused by psychological or physical causes
- treatment involves changing the conditions of learning
Socio-cultural Model
abnormal behaviour results from stresses in the environment
Evidence for Socio-cultural model: Schreier & Chen
parents childhood SES predicted their childrens blood pressure
- low SES predicted increasing BP
Evidence for Socio-cultural model: Yee & Prendergast
conditions of housing influenced responses to simulated bacterial infections in rats
Cognitive Model & treatment
mental disorders result from maladaptive ways of selecting information around us
treatment: training individuals to think differently about themselves, the most popular and successful treatment
DSM-1 came out in
1952
DSM-V came out in
2013
How many categories does DSM-V have
300
Sufficient Cause
if A always produces B
Necessary and Sufficient Cause
if B never happens unless A is present, than A is a necessary and sufficient cause of B
