mental health and individual difference Flashcards
what is Biological psychology?
Biological psychology is the study of the brain and how it reacts to emotion and thought as well as vice versa
what is Clinical psychology?
Clinical psychology is the treatment and study of mental disorders as well as the understanding of abnormal behaviour in people
what is cognitive psychology?
Cognitive psychology is strudy of how we think and make decisions as well as process information.
what is Cultural psychology?
Cultural psychology is the study how cultures interact with each other and allow us to understand the experiences of refugees, migrants etc
what is Developmental psych?
Developmental psych is about how are behaviour changes and develops over our lifetime
what is educational psych
Educational psych: is about understanding how teachers teach and how to better educate people as well as aid challenged students.
what is Organization psych?
Organization psych: is about how to make business more efficient and satisfying.
what is Social psych.
Social psych: is about how people interact with one another and how that impacts our behaviour and mental process.
what is Community psych?
Community psych: is about working with Communities to prevent psychological issues
what is Environmental psych?
Environmental psych: is about how our Environments affect our behaviour and thought
what is Forensic psych?
Forensic psych: is about the problems involving psych and law.
what is Health psych?
Health psych: is about how illness affects mental health and vice versa
what is Personalty psych?
Personalty psych: is about how our personalities differ or are similar to one another and why
what is Psychopathology?
Psychopathology is the study of mental disorders
what is the criteria for whether something is considered a mental disorder?
Deviance, distress and dysfunction (the three ds)
what are culture-bound syndromes
Mental disorders that are Culturally specific. Mental disorders that are only found in certain cultures.
what is the Biopsychosocial approach?
The belief that mental disorders are caused by a mix of psychological processes, biological factors and sociocultural factors.
what is the Diathesis-stress model?
the belief that MD are a mix of biologically inherited traits learnt behaviours and early learning experiences that are only triggered when exposed to a major stressor ie being disposed to depression but it only manifesting after a parent dies.
what are Culture-specific forms of disorders?
when a disorder is globally recorded but symptoms are reported differently.
what is the DSM?
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
In prehistoric times what was mental illness considered to be because of?
evil spirts
what is Trephination?
using a trephine (a sharp tool) to remove part of the skull to let the spirits out.
Hippocrates believed that mental disroder where caused by?
things like head trauma or brain disease, he also believed it to be caused by the four humours being out of balance (blood, black bile, yellow bile and phlegm).
what did Plato think mental disorders were caused by.
he thought the mentally ill were not at fault for their actions. He believed that mental disorders were caused by environment and upbringing.