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Flashcards by Pip Mooney, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Pip Mooney
over 9 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Cultural relativism | View that behaviour cannot be judged properly unless it is in their own culture |
| Deviation from social norms | Abnormal behaviour is seen as a deviation from unstated rules about how one 'ought' to behave. Anything that violates these rules its considered abnormal |
| Statistical infrequency | Abnormality is behaviours that are extremely rare. |
| DSM | A list of disorder that is used to diagnose them. |
| Deviation from ideal mental health | Ideal mental health would include positive attitude towards the self, resistance to stress and an accurate perception of reality |
| Failure to function adequately | If they can't go about their daily life normall and also experience distress, it's considered a sign of abnormality |
| Depression | Mood disorder, individual feels sad or lacks interest in usual activity (or irrational negative thoughts, raised/lowered activity levels and difficulties with concentration, sleep and eating) |
| OCD | Disorder where anxiety comes from obsessions (persistent thoughts) and compulsions (repeated behaviour). |
| Phobias | Mental disorders characterised by high levels of anxiety in response to a particular stimulus |
| Classical conditioning | Learning through association |
| Operant conditioning | Learning through reinforcement or punishment |
| Two-process model | Theory to explain the development of phobias. Begin with CC and maintain with OC |
| Flooding | Type if therapy to treat phobias, extreme form of stimuli under relaxed conditions |
| Systematic desensitation | Therapy for Phobias Gradually exposed |
| ABC Model | Cognitive approach for understanding mental disorders |
| Negative Triad | Cognitive approach to understanding depression |
| Mustabatory thinking | Thinking that certain things must be true in order for the individual to be happy |
| Schema | Cognitive framework, helps interpret information from the brain |
| Cognitive-behavioural therapy | Mix of cognitive and behavioural therapy |
| Irrational thoughts | Are rigid and unrealistic, they lack internal consistency |
| Concordance rate | Measure of genetic similarities |
| Dopamine | Neurotransmitter in brain, effects motivation and drive |
| GABA | Neurotransmitter that regulates excitement |
| Noradenaline | Neurotransmitter involving governing autonomic nervous system |
| Serotonin | Neurotransmitter implicating many different behaviours and processes |
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