PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cranial Nerves, Cultural Relativism, Epigenetics
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Abnormal: cultural relativism, unusualness, causes distress, mental illness, maladaptiveness. Ancient: china (yin & yang, greeks and romans (natural- hysteria, wandering uterus)- supernatural to biological. 1600s: galileo= experimental approach, willis= structure & function. Renaissance- 1700s: de vinci= art, anatomy, descartes= mind + body= distinct, electrical activity of brain, gall= localization of function (cid:894)broca"s area(cid:895) Jackson: hierarchal (diff areas developed at diff times: symptoms of mental illness= loss of higher order cortical control, psychosis. 1900s: 1960: mental hospitals closed in favour of community based & outpatient treatment. Genetics= down syndrome, adoption & twin studies: linkage analysis= dna segments near each other, associative studies= compare dna of people who have a disorder with people who do not. Psychodynamic: freud: id, ego, superego, oral, anal, phallic, latent, genital, object relation theory= first impressions in childhood carries into adulthood, criticisms: focused on males, emphasized sexual drives, unfalsifiable (unconscious) Behavioural: classical conditioning= pavlov, operant conditioning= skinner, observational learning= bandura.
