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Behaviourist approach

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Focuses on determining the forces in someone’s life that support unhealthy behaviour
•goal is to GRADUALLY replace bad behaviour with good

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Internal influences

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Personal factors (age sex income personality)
Psychological factors (motivation perception etc)
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External influences

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Cultural factors (social class culture etc)
Social factors (family reference group status etc)
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Health psychology

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Study of how behaviour, thought, emotions can influence someone’s physical health / how our physical health influences our behaviour thoughts emotions

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Learned psychological behaviour

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Ex smoking - more likely to smoke if members of family/ friends smoke

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Body mass index (BMI)

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Weight in kilograms/ height in meters (squared) = BMI

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What % of Canadians are obese on BMI scale?

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25%

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What is the heritability of body size?

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0.5-0.9 (very high)

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Set point

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Biological forces work to keep your body weight at some genetically determined level

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What is the most critical factor for weight loss?

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Physical activity

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Kids who watched food commercials ate what % more food than kids who didn’t?

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45%

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Social contagion

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Phenomenon by which behaviours spread through interaction

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Cognitive appraisal theory of stress

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Primary appraisal: think something is wrong, get stressed

Secondary appraisal: think if it’s something we need to worry about

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Mood disorders

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Related I severe disruptions in someone’s emotional state resulting in “maladaptive” behaviour & thought patterns

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Depression

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And LENGTHLY, chronic period of deep sadness, feeling worthless, belief nothing will get better

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Anxiety disorders

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Fear responses that are out of proportion to the true threat

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Generalized anxiety disorder (GAD)

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Intense fear to normal daily stressors/ life changes

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Panic disorder

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State of anxiety that is NOT constant but occurs in extreme bursts called “panic attacks”

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Social phobias

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Chronic concerns of being overly judged negatively / scared of being publicly humiliated

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Schizophrenia

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A severe disruption in someone’s thoughts & perceptions of reality

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Phase 1 of schizophrenia

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(Prodromal phase) Cognitive deficits, confusion, problems logically thinking

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Phase 2 schizophrenia

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(Active phase) developed strange delusions / see or hear things that aren’t real / thoughts & speech can become illogical

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Phase 3 schizophrenia

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(Residual phase) most prominent symptoms decline but suppressed willingness to be social

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Positive / negative symptoms of schizophrenia

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Positive: adds something ex. Hallucinating, disorganized thinking
Negative: takes something away ex. Social isolation, lack of motivation

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The moral treatment movement

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PINEL and DIX showed society residents in mental home should be treated well
By 1950’s public opinion shifted on institutionalizations
1955-85 mental institution pop decreased 80%

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The medical model

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Focuses solely on reducing the symptoms but the root cause of the disorder is far more complicated

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Statistical abnormalities

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Can not provide sole basis for defining mental disorders because what is socially accepted is always changing

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Maladaptive

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Someone’s feelings, behaviour, thoughts etc are maladaptive if they cause distress to the people around you/ impairs a persons daily functioning/ increase likelyhood someone will experience harm

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Agoraphobia

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When someone’s fear of having a panic attack in public causes them to avoid public places

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Phobias

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Extreme fear of objects, organisms, activities

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OCD

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Combination of irrational persistent thoughts, the irresistible urge to engage in repetitive behaviours or compulsions

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BMI scale

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Underweight: under 18.5
Healthy: 18.5-24.9
Overweight: 25-29.9
Obese: above 30

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Social resilience

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The ability to keep positive relationships and to endure and recover from social isolation and life stressors

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General adaptation syndrome (GAS)

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A theory of stress responses involving stages of alarm, resistance, and exhaustion

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The DSM-5 (Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders)

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Describes number and type of symptoms for each mental disorder
Details about prognosis or expected progression for each disorder

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Borderline personality disorder

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Mental illness that centres on the inability to manage emotion well

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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)

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Long term pattern of abnormal behaviour, exaggerated feelings of self importance

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Histrionic personality disorder (HPD)

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Excessive attention seeking emotions, usually begins in early adulthood

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Co- morbidity

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The simultaneous presence of 2 chronic diseases or conditions in a patient

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Dissociative disorder (DD)

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Conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception

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Dissociative fugue

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Is one or more episodes of amnesia in which individuals cannot recall some or all of his or her past

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Depersonalization disorder

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Mental disorder in which the person has persistent reoccurring feelings of depersonalization or realization

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Dissociative identity disorder

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At least 2 distinct and relatively enduring personality states

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Dissociative amnesia disorder

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Mental illness that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, consciousness, awareness, identity, and or perception

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Dopaminergic pathways/ projections

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The sets of projection neurons in the brain that release dopamine

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Glutamate circuits/ receptors

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Synaptic receptors located on the membranes of neuronal cells

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Enlarged ventricles

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Means that the fluid pressure in the brain may not be as in other types of hydrocephalus. Enlarged ventricles pressing on the brain can cause symptoms

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Frontal lobe deficiencies

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Frontal lobe Plays big role in mental functions like motivation planning, social behaviour and speech production

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Frontal lobe disorder

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Impairment of frontal lobe from disease or head trauma

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The neurodevelopemental hypothesis (NDH)

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Suggests disruptions in brain development early in life underlies the development of psychosis during adulthood (schizophrenia)

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Pessimistic explanatory style

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People who generally tend to blame themselves for negative events believe the events will never stop and let it affect many aspects of their life