PSYC 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Learned Helplessness, Bulimia Nervosa, Biomedical Model

• School: Brock University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1F90
• Professor: Kathryn Belicki

Document Summary

This question is problematic because it is based on an outdated model. Biomedical model: shaped by the notion that the body and the mind are separate from one another. Would not see psychological problems as a physical disease. Biopsychosocial model: shaped by the notion that the body and the mind coincide with one another. Would see psychological problems as a physical disease. Around the beginning of the 1950s, a new field began to look at psychological problem. The field of study grew/expanded throughout the 1960s and 1970s. During this time there was a massive expansion of psychology as a profession (studying and treating psychological problems) From the medical perspective, they had a new group without medical training encroaching on their profession. In the 1980s, it became clear that the body was very influential in psychological problems. Psychopharmacology is the study of medication for psychological problems.