PSYC 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Relational Psychoanalysis, Defence Mechanisms, Psychoanalytic Theory
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Chapter 2: theories and treatment of abnormality: three general approaches to understanding psychological disorders, sociocultural- views disorders as the result of environmental conditions and cultural norms, biological- views disorders as the result of abnormal genes or neurobiological dysfunction. Used to view disorders as either absent or present. Now there is a continuum perspective on abnormality: psychological- views disorders as result of thinking processes, personality styles, and conditioning. People like gage (cid:449)hose (cid:271)rai(cid:374)s" do (cid:374)ot fu(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) properl(cid:455) ofte(cid:374) sho(cid:449) pro(cid:271)le(cid:373)s i(cid:374) psychological functioning. 3 main regions of the brain: hindbrain. Hypothalamus- small structure just below the thalamus that regulates eating, drinking, and sexual behavior. Cerebral cortex- the area of the brain that was da(cid:373)aged i(cid:374) phi(cid:374)eas gage"s a(cid:272)(cid:272)ide(cid:374)t. Can result from injury, such as car accident, and from diseases that cause brain deterioration: biochemical imbalances. The impulse reaches the small swellings at the end of the axon, called synaptic terminals.
