Conceptual Issues Flashcards

(51 cards)

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First professor of Psychology in Australia

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Henry Tasman Lovell

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What defines abnormality

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Statistical rarity - deviate from average

3D’s -
Deviance (norm violation, negatively evaluated by society)
Distress (assess oneself)
Dysfunction (maladaptive, inference with life)

Disability (impairment in a key area)

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Mental disorder

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Syndrome characterised by clinical significant disturbance in cognition, emotion regulation or behaviour

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Syndrome

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Group of symptoms or signs based on frequent co-occurrence

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Hippocrates- ‘4 humours’ (fluids)

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Blood
Yellow Bile (Choler)
Black bile (Melanchloer)
Phlegm

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Paracelsus- 3 classes of mental illnesses

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Vesania (poisons)
Lunacy (influenced by moon phases)
Insanity (cause by hereditary)

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Defence mechanisms

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Reduce anxiety caused by unconscious intrapsychic conflict

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Neuroses

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Milder forms

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Psychoses

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Failing of defence mechanisms causing retreat from reality

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Founder of behaviourism

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John B. Watson

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Pavlov

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Classical conditioning

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Thorndike

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Operant conditioning

Learning through consequences

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Bandura

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Modelling

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Albert Ellis

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Rational-emotive therapy
(Respond to own idiosyncratic interpretations of events)

People respond to their interpretations of events

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ABC Model

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A:Event = B:Beliefs or interpretations of the event = C:Emotional and behavioural responses

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Cognitive restructuring

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Change dysfunctional thinking patterns

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Aaron Beck

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Errors

  • selective abstraction
  • overgeneralisation
  • dichotomous thinking
  • exaggeration of the negative

Black and white thinking = cognitive distortions

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Uniquely human issues

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Self, hope, love, creativity, individuality

Unconditional positive regard

Conditions of worth

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Carl Rogers

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Person centred therapy

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20
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DSM

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Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental Disorders

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DSM-5

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300+ different mental disorders
Published May 2013

Adopted a neo-kraepelinian approach

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Diagnosis

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Consistent with medical model

Driven by clear identifiable underlying pathological processes

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Barlow’s triple vulnerability model

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Generalised biological vulnerability

Generalised psychological vulnerability

Specific psychological vulnerability

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3 dimensions of emotion

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Negative affectivity
Autonomic arousal
Low positive affectivity

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Widiger
Dyscontrolled maladaptivity | Uncontrolled behaviours
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GABA Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid
Inhibits nerve impulses | Implicated in anxiety
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Norepinephrine
Implicated in anxiety and other stress-related disorders
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Serotonin and dopamine
Implicated in depression, mania and schizophrenia
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Neurotransmitter receptor sites
Agonist drugs - stimulate | Antagonist drugs - dampen
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Who wrote ‘Psychology as the behaviourist Views it’?
John B. Watson
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Robins and Gauze diagnostic validity
Treatment outcome studies
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Self-actualisation
Humanistic perspective
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B.F. Skinner
Operant conditioning | Principle of reinforcement
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Biopsychosocial approach
Biological influences Psychological influences Social-cultural influences
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Most modern explanations of mental disorders include
Diathesis-stress model | Interaction between biological and psychological factors
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ECT - Elctroconvulsive therapy
Effective treatment for sever depression Still used today Developed 1930’s Calming effect on patients
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Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
Safety Warm relationships with others Self-actualisation Basic biological needs
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Functional analysis of behaviour
Describes behaviour and its environmental determinants objectively
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Rosenhan
‘On being sane in insane places’ “Pseudo patient” Diagnoses in mods of observers
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Epidemiology
Distribution of disorder
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Aetiology
Causation | (You can never infer causation from correlational data
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Equal environments assumption critical for ?
Twin studies
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Statistical significance
If correlation in population was zero, there is less than 5% chance of getting the correlation that you got in your sample
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Multiple baseline design
Across behaviours and settings
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Third variable problem
Correlation between seemingly odd items
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Reliability
Consistency of measurement ``` Inter-rater reliability Kappa coefficient = observed - expected __________________ 1 - expected ```
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Kappa Statistic .80 - .50 __________ 1 - .50
= .60
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CBT- cognitive behavioural treatment
Cognitive restructuring Behavioural experiments Thought diaries Altering behaviour
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Harmful dysfunction
Wakefield
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Kappa
diving 0.5 is equivalent to multiplying by 2
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If the observed inter rater reliability was 0.5, and the expected was 0.3, what is the overall difference? 0.5 - 0.3 ———— 1 - 0.5
0.4