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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
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
Focuses solely on reducing the symptoms but the root cause of the disorder is far more complicated
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Statistical abnormalities
Can not provide sole basis for defining mental disorders because what is socially accepted is always changing
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Maladaptive
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
When someone’s fear of having a panic attack in public causes them to avoid public places
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Phobias
Extreme fear of objects, organisms, activities
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OCD
Combination of irrational persistent thoughts, the irresistible urge to engage in repetitive behaviours or compulsions
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BMI scale
Underweight: under 18.5 Healthy: 18.5-24.9 Overweight: 25-29.9 Obese: above 30
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Social resilience
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)
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)
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
Mental illness that centres on the inability to manage emotion well
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Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)
Long term pattern of abnormal behaviour, exaggerated feelings of self importance
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Histrionic personality disorder (HPD)
Excessive attention seeking emotions, usually begins in early adulthood
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Co- morbidity
The simultaneous presence of 2 chronic diseases or conditions in a patient
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Dissociative disorder (DD)
Conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception
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Dissociative fugue
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
Mental disorder in which the person has persistent reoccurring feelings of depersonalization or realization
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Dissociative identity disorder
At least 2 distinct and relatively enduring personality states
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Dissociative amnesia disorder
Mental illness that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, consciousness, awareness, identity, and or perception
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Dopaminergic pathways/ projections
The sets of projection neurons in the brain that release dopamine
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Glutamate circuits/ receptors
Synaptic receptors located on the membranes of neuronal cells
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Enlarged ventricles
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
Frontal lobe Plays big role in mental functions like motivation planning, social behaviour and speech production
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Frontal lobe disorder
Impairment of frontal lobe from disease or head trauma
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The neurodevelopemental hypothesis (NDH)
Suggests disruptions in brain development early in life underlies the development of psychosis during adulthood (schizophrenia)
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Pessimistic explanatory style
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

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