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Psychopathology Flashcards

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Define abnormailty

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Psychologcal condition or behaviour that differs from most people (social norm)

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Define depression

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Mental disorder that causes people to experince a depressed mood

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Statistical norm

Critisicm of abnormality

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  • Abnormality accounts for frequency of behaviour and not its desirability
  • Can’t distguish between rate behaviour that is eccentric and rare behaviour that is psychlogically abnormal
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Define abnormality that deviates from social norm

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Some people behave in a way different from the social norm and social expectation they are seen as different

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Social norm not stasticial

What are the critiscm of abnormality

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  • Discrimination against people
  • Social norm and attitude changes over time
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Jahdoa (1958) 6 conditions

Explain abnormality as deviation from mental health

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  • Positive self attitude
  • Personal growth
  • ability cope with stress
  • being in control of own decisions
  • accurate perception of reality
  • ability to adapt with changes in environment
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What are the critiscm of Jahdoa study on mental health

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  • Degree to which person meets the critea can change over time
  • Subjective standard - difficult to measure things like self esteem
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Define phobias

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  • Phobia are form of anxiety disorder which the emotional response to an often harmless object has become a fear to them
  • Irrational fear that is out of proportion
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Explain symptons of phobias

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  • Physical symptons - body response to stress such as hyperventilation and increased hearty rate
  • Behavioural symptons - Individual will try to avoid the fear which can impact everday life
  • Cognitive symptons - anxiety can decrease concentration and impair person ability to complete complex task
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Define OCD

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Anxiety disorder that involves compulsive thoughts and compulsive behaviour

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Explain symptoms of OCD

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  • Physical symptons - body responds to stress such as hyperventilation and increase heart rate
  • Behavioural sympton - compulsive behaviour such as the urge to carry out a specific behaviour or task
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Diagnostic of OCD

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  • Acknowledge the problem but are scared to overcome
  • Suffer from serve anxiety
  • Suffer from serve depression
  • Experience either obsession or compulsion
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Symptons of depression

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  • Physical symptons - Lack of energy, loss of weight and appetite
  • Behavioural symptons - Stops socialising, loeses intertest in daily activties may attempt suicide
  • Emotional symptons - Feelings of sadness and despair and absence of feelings
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Diagnostic criteria of depression

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  • extreme sadness
  • tearfulness
  • depressed moods
  • loss of interest in pleasure and activities
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Three assumptions behaviour approach makes

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  • All behaviour is learned
  • what has been learned can be unlearned
  • abnormal behaviour learned same way as normal
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Stimulus (unconditonal)

How can phobia can be learnt through classical conditioning

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  • Starts from an unconditonal stimulus and this triggers a natural reflex but if another stimilus happens at the same time, when this stimimulus happens again it can elict the fear
  • An example a loud noise and this creates fear during this stimulus another one being baloons
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What is operant conditioning

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Learning through positve and negative reinforcement (Punishments and rewards)

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Explain how phobia can be learnt through operant conditioning

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  • Actions are either rewarded (positive reinforcment) or punished (negative reinforcement)
  • we will repeat the behaviour if the outcome is good but not if the outcome is not
  • If someone has a phobia they are scared of something so to keep their anxiety and stress levels down they will avoid it and that postively reinforces
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Dogs, albert

Give an example of Classical conditioning

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  • Pavlov dogs - learned to associate food with a ringing of a bell
  • Little Albert - Learn to associate a white rate with loud noises
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Watching others, Bandura

Explain social learning theory and give an example of a research

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  • We learn certain behaviour by observing others and copying them
  • Bandura Bobo doll
  • Mineka et al (1994) monkey video
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Operant and classic conditioning

Explain how we learn and maintain phobias with the two process model

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  • Learning and maintance involves classical and operant conditioning
  • Classical conditoning - fear is learnt by association
  • Operant conditoning - Avoiding the fear (explains why phobia persist)
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Classical conditioning

How can you treat phobias using the behaviourist approach

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To unlearn the abnormal behaviour the treatment will be based on classical conditioning, unlearning the inappropiate behaviour and replacing it with new behaviour

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define desensitisation

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Overconumpstion in violent media reuces emotional impact on violence because people become ‘used’ to it

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define systematic desensitisation

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A person with a phobia is slowly reintroduced to the fear

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How does systematic desensitisation work

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  • Person phobia broken down into small parts
  • patient taught to relax and made to create a fear hierarchy
  • starting with the stimuli that creates the less fear and building it up with the muslce relaxation techniques
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What does the systematic desensitation consist of

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  • Construction of the hierarchy
  • Relaxation trainining
  • Graded exposure (imagination)
  • pratice in real life
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Explain the critiscm of the behavioural approach

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  • Seen as dehumanising as it reduces humans to programmed stimulus and responses
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systematic desentisation

What did McGrath et al (1990) find

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70% of his P’s found improvment BUT few patients were completely free of anxiety

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How does the cognitive approach explain depression

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Assumes the human mind is like a processor and people can control how they select information and store it

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Explain beck (1967) cognitive triad

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  • Negative view about the world
  • Negative view about the future
  • Negative view about self
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Explain Ellis ABC model (1962)

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A - Activating agent (example getting a B in an exam)
B - Belief (can be rational or non rational)
C - Consequence (can be healthy or unhealthy)

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Schemas

Explain how Beck explains depressioon

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Beck believes patients cause of negative thinking is through the negative triad, negative schemas and cognitive biases

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How does most cognitive therapy work

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  1. Getting patients to recognist irrational thoughts
  2. Agreeing on a more realistic approach
  3. Putting this into pratice via a real life situation
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Define cognitive behaviour therapy and the assumptions

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  • Recognises importance of changing both behaviour and thinking
  • Thoughts, behaviour and feeling all influence eachother
  • role of therapist is to help patients identify irrational thought and change their thoughts (negative bias)
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A lot of patients

Butler et al (2006) findings

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studied 10000 patients and found CBT was effective in treating depression (better then anti depressants)

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reductionism

Explain critiscm of CBT

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  • Approach states people are responsible for their psychological problems and could lead to people being blamed for abnormalities
  • Approach is reductionist as it ingnores biologial causes such as genetics
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How does serotonin link to agressive behaviour

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Low level of serotonin can be linked to a agressive behaviour (serotoin regulates mood)

38
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What is beta blockers

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Drugs that act on the sympathetic nervous system rather than the brain to reduce heart rate and blood pressure reduce the effects of stress

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Immunity

Why can cortisol damage health

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Cortisol is a stress hormone and it damages health as raised levels can decrease immune function

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Relatives

Findings of Lenane (1990)

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Lenane (1990) found that relatives who had OCD 30% of relatives to those also has it

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Zohar et al (1996)

Neural explanation for OCD

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  • OCD can be due to low level of serotonin (nerotransmitters)
  • Zohar et al (1996) - found drugs that increase serotonin levels benefited 60% of OCD suffers
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What are some drug treatment for OCD

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  1. Beta blockers - act on the automatic nervous system (ANS) to reduce anxiety by reducing heart rate and blood pressure
  2. Selective serotonin reuptake inhibiator (SSRI) - Increase level of serotonin as OCD can be a cause of low level of serotonin
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Drug therapy, easy to use and cheap

Advantages of biological approach for treating OCD

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  • Drug therapy can be used along side CBT
  • Easy to use and does not involve patients changing lifestyle
  • Cheap compared to other therapy such as CBT
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Ethical concerns, not treat (suppress?)

Criticism of Biological approach treating OCD

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  • Some drugs have unpleasants side effects and can lead to depdency also addiction
  • Suppress the symptons and not cure the disorder

A - Level AQA psychology (Component 1) (4 decks)

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