PSY BEH 11C Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Beck Depression Inventory, Thematic Apperception Test, Mental Disorder

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Psychology and Social Behavior
• Course: PSY BEH 11C
• Professor: Elizabeth Bailey

Document Summary

Mental illnesses often treated as something that is easily gotten over. Why are you taking medicine for that? . How we think about mental illnesses has changed over time. Mental illnesses were believed to be possessed by evil spirits << very early on. Psychogenic hypothesis << more recent (~150 years) Idea that you can have mental illness in the absence of physical cause. Diathesis: predisposition to acquire a mental illness. E. g. someone"s pet dies; so their pet"s death caused their depression. So people with depression must have some underlying affliction for the pet"s death to impact them so much. Genes, thinking style, no social support >> all in one person. Bio-psycho-social perspective (corresponds respectively to genes, thinking style, social support) Culturally deviant: does a person act in a way that differs from cultural norms (ex: in this culture, be very sad when a loved one dies)