PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Explanatory Style, Binge Eating, Binge Eating Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Najwa Haddad

Document Summary

Psychological disorders: deviant, distressful and dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings or behaviours. Statistical infrequency: the more infrequent a variable is, the more likely it is to be disordered. Biological in uences: evolution, individual genes, brain structure and chemistry. Psychological in uences: stress, trauma, learned helplessness, mood related perceptions and realities. Social-cultural in uences: roles, expectation, de nitions of normality or disorder . Medical model: the concept that psychological diseases have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and cured through treatment in a hospital. Biopsychosocial model: adopted by psychologists, considers nature/nurture, genetic, physiological, psychological, social and cultural factors. Dsm-iv-tr: the american psychological association"s diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, fourth edition with an updated text revision a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders. Labels might cause judgement and masquerading of science. But labels make communicating and treating disorders relatively easy.