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What are the four definitions of abnormality?

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Deviation from social norms
Failure to function adequately
Deviation from ideal mental health
Statistical infrequency

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What is the failure to function adequately definition of abnormality?

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When an individual cannot cope with the day to day challenges of life

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What are features of the failure to function adequately definition of abnormality as identified by Rosenhan and Seligman?

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Maladaptive behaviour - their irrational and unpredictable actions go against their long term best interests
Personal anguish - observers feel discomfort in their presence

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What is the deviation from social norms definition of abnormality?

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Individuals who break the social norms of their society

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What is the deviation from ideal mental health definition of abnormality?

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Missing features identified by Jahoda as the ideal mental health

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What are the features of the deviation from mental health definition of abnormality as identified by Jahoda

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Resisting stress
Self actualisation
An accurate perception of reality
Autonomy
Environmental mastery
Positive attitude to yourself

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What is the statistical infrequency definition of abnormality?

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Someone is identified as ‘abnormal’ when their mental condition is very rare in a population as judged by statistics

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What are some strengths of the definitions of abnormality?

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Deviation from social norms - Does not impose a western view of abnormality so it is not seen as ethnocentric

Failure to function adequately - Respects the individual and their own personal experience

Deviation from ideal mental health - Holistic view as it considers multiple factors in diagnosis and provides ways to overcome them

Statistical infrequency - People accessed as abnormal by this have been evaluated objectively

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What are some limitations of the definitions of abnormality?

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Deviation from social norms - Defining people who move to a new culture as abnormal can be inappropriate

Failure to function adequately - Only includes people who cannot cope

Deviation from ideal mental health - Too strict to set a criteria to define MH as it is challenging to meet all the requirements at one time

Statistical infrequency - Not all statistically rare traits are negative

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What are the behavioural characteristics of Phobias?

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Avoidance - Avoiding phobic objects
Panic - Uncontrollable response
Failure to function - Difficulty in day to day activities

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What are the emotional characteristics of phobias?

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Anxiety - An uncontrollable high state of arousal
Fear - Emotional sensation of extreme and unpleasent alertness

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What are the cognitive characteristics of phobias?

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Irrational thoughts - Exaggerated belief in the harm the phobic object can cause
Reduced cognitive capacity

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What are the behavioural characteristics of depression?

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Reduction in anxiety level - Lack of energy for daily tasks
Change in eating behaviour - Weight gain/Weight loss
Aggression - Self harm

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What are the emotional characteristics of depression?

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Sadness - Persistent low mood
Guilty - Feeling where they have no value in comparison to others

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What are the cognitive characteristics of depression?

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Poor concentration - Cannot give their full attention
Negative schemas - automatic negative biases

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What are the behavioural characteristics of OCD?

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Compulsions - behaviours performed to reduce anxiety
Avoidance - taking action to avoid objects that trigger obsessions

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What are the emotional characteristics of OCD?

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Anxiety - uncomfortably high state of arousal
Depression - consistent and long-lasting sense of sadness

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What are the cognitive characteristics of OCD?

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Obsessions - Intrusive, Impulsive, Recurrent thoughts that tent to be unpleasant
Hypervigilance - Permanent state of alertness

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What is Marlow’s two process model?

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Marlows model describes how phobias are acquired and maintained

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How are phobias acquired according to Marlow?

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Phobias are acquired by classical conditioning where an association is formed between the phobic object and fear

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How are phobias maintained according to Marlow?

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Phobias are maintained by operant conditioning where an avoidance of a behaviour leads to a reduction in anxiety which is a pleasant sensation

The negative reinforcement strengthens phobic response

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What are the behavioural treatments for phobias?

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Systematic desensitisation and flooding

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What is systematic desensitisation?

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Systematic desensitisation leads to the elimination of the negative association and formation of a new positive association

The therapist first teaches the patient relaxation techniques which they use to progress through the anxiety hierarchy

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What is flooding?

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Flooding is an immediate and full exposure to the maximum level of the phobic stimulus

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What are some strengths to the behavioural explanation of phobias?

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Watson + Rayner - Little Albert

WBehaviourists theories have been practically applied to counter conditioning therapies (SD + Flooding)

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What are some limitations for the behavioural explanation of phobias?

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DiNardo - Dog phobias were just as common in people who experienced conditioned events like dog bites to those who havent

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What are some strengths of the behavioural explanation for treating phobias?

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Garcia-Palacious - 83% of participants with VR exposure to spiders improved, where 0% of the control group did

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What are some limitations of the behavioural explanation for treating phobias?

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Both techniques are more suited to specific object phobias than social phobias

The effects of the therapies may be limited due to the controlled conditions of the therapists office

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What are the cognitive explanations for explaining depression?

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Depression is due to irrational thoughts and maladaptive internal mental processes

Becks negative triad
Ellis ABC model

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What is Becks negative triad?

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Where a person with depression have three schemas with a negative bias which are believed to have been developed in childhood and provides the framework for adult life

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What are the three schemas in Becks negative triad?

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The self - Negative self schemas
The future - Negative thoughts such as things will always turn out badly
The world - Thinking people are hostile or threatening

32
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What does Ellis ABC model stand for?

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A - activating event
B - irrational beliefs
C - consequence

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What are some strengths to the cognitive approach to explaining depression?

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Grazioloi and Terry - Found that women with negative thinking styles were most likely to develop postpartum depression. Supports the idea of faulty thinking leading to depression

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What are some limitations to the cognitive approach to explaining depression?

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Bipolar depression is manic episodes - Provides problems for becks theory as it states that depression is due to negative schemas which are formed in childhood and provide framework for adult life

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What are the cognitive explanations for treating depression?

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Becks CBT and Ellis REBT - They change negative schemas and challenge irrational thoughts

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What is Becks CBT?

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The patient generates and tests hypothesis of their irrational thoughts and then they see that they lack them they change their schemas

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What is Ellis REBT?

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Development of the ABC model which adds Dispute and Effect

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What is the biological approach to explaining OCD?

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The genetic explanation for OCD is that the disorder is inherited - Around 230 separate candidate genes found in people with OCD, shows OCD appears to be polysemic

The neural explanation for OCD includes low serotonin levels - Likely due to serotonin being removed too quickly from the synapse before it has been able to transmit its signal/influence the postsynaptic cell

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What are some strengths to the biological approach to explaining OCD?

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Nestadt - DZ twins have a 31% concordance rate and MZ have a 68% concordance rate, because they share a similar environment the additional shared DNA must be the reason for the increased concordance

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What are some limitations of the biological approach to explaining OCD?

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Correlation in twin studies does not equal causation

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What is the biological approach to treating OCD?

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Drug therapies - The primary class of drugs used to control the symptoms of OCD are a group of antidepressant drugs called SSRIs which influence the serotonin levels in the brain

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What do SSRIs do and how do they treat OCD?

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SSRIs inhibit the reuptake process in the synapse - Therefore serotonin is still present in the synaptic cleft and continues to stimulate the postsynaptic neuron

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What are some strengths to the biological approach to treating OCD?

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Drug therapies are far less expensive then CBT

Soomro - Meta analysis of 17 studies comparing SSRIs to placebos and found that SSRIs significantly reduced the symptoms of OCD which suggests drug therapy is effective

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What are some limitations of the biological approach to treating OCD?

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Goldacre - Drug therapies are researched and funded by companies looking for financial gain not actually the effectiveness of the drug

AQA A Level Psychology Paper 1 Revision 2024 (4 decks)

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