PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Low Birth Weight, Explanatory Style, Frontal Lobe
Document Summary
Perspectives of psychological disorders: defining psychological disorders. Psychological disorders: deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors. There is more to a disorder than being deviant. The medical model: the concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and, in most cases, cured, often through treatment in the hospital. The biopsychosocial approach arises from the interaction of nature. All behavior, whether called normal or disordered, To presume that a person is (cid:498)mentally ill,(cid:499) they say, attributes the condition to a (cid:498)sickness(cid:499) that must be identified and cured. Biological influences: evolution, individual genes, brain structure and chemistry. Psychological influences: stress, trauma, learned helplessness, mood-related perceptions and memories. Social-cultural influences: classifying psychological disorders, roles, expectations, definitions of normality and disorder. Dsm-iv-tr: the american psychiatric association"s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders. 11 18 - 13 with an updated (cid:498)text revision(cid:499); a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders: labeling psychological disorders.
