psychopathology summary

Question 1

definition of abnormality 1

Answer 1

• statistical infrequency (statistics, IQ)

- deviation from social norms (social context, homosexuality)

Question 2

definition of abnormality 2

Answer 2

• failure to function adequately (cant cope, rosenhans signs of not coping, low IQ)
• deviation from ideal mental health 9what is normal?, Jahoda’s ideal mental, overlap between definitions)

Question 3

symptoms of OCS, depression and OCD

Answer 3

• behavioral
• emotional
• cognitive

Question 4

bheavioural approach of explaining OCD

Answer 4

• Mowrer (learned and maintained)
• classical conditioning to create phobia
• little albert (watson, white rat, classical)
• maintenance by operant conditioing

Question 5

behavioural apporach to treating phobias

Answer 5

• systemtic desistisation (counterconditioning and reciprocal inhibition)
• anxiety hierarchy and relaxing
• flooding (exposure, extinction, ethics)

Question 6

cognitive approach to explaining depression

Answer 6

• beck’s cognitve theory (faulty info processing, negative self schema, negative triad)
• ellis’ ABC model (activating vent, beliefs, consequences)

Question 7

cognitve approach to treating depression

Answer 7

• Beck’s CBT (work together, challenge neative triad, patient as scientist)
• Ellis’ REBT (D and E, challenge irrational belifs, empirical + logical, behavioural activation)

Question 8

biological apporach toe xplining OCD

Answer 8

• genetic explanations (candidate genes like seratonin, polygenic, different types of OCD)
• NEURAL EXPLANATIONS (low seratonin lowers mood, descison making in frontal lobe impaired, parrahippocampal gyrus function)

Question 9

biological approch to treating OCD

Answer 9

drug therapy

• changing levels of neurotransmitters
• SSRI’s (prevent reabsorbtion of seratonin and stays in synapses)
• dosage
• SSRI’s and CBT
• alternatives: SNRI’s and tricyclics