AS Psychology- Psychopathology

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What is Statistical Deviation/ Infrequency?
Individual has a less common characteristic than most of the population (IQ, Depression)
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What is Deviation from Social Norms?
Behaviour that is different from the accepted standards of behaviour in a community/ society
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What is Failure to Function Adequately?
When someone is unable to cope with ordinary demands of day-to-day living
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What is Deviation from Ideal Mental Health?
When someone does not meet a set of criteria for good mental health
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Suggest 4 criteria from Jahoda's Ideal Mental Health
We can Self Actualise, We can cope with Stress, We have good Self Esteem and Lack Guilt, We are Independent of other people
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Name one Behavioural, Emotional and Cognitive Charateristic of Phobias
Panic, Anxiety, Selective Attention to Stimulus
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Name one Behavioural, Emotional and Cognitive Charateristic of Depression
Activity Levels, Lowered Mood, Poor Concentration
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Name one Behavioural, Emotional and Cognitive Charateristic of OCD
Compulsions, Guilt/ Disgust, Obsessive Thoughts
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Which Case Study demonstrated learning a Phobia via Classical Conditioning?
Little Albert, by Watson and Rayner
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What are the 3 levels of Systematic Desensitisation's Counterconditioning?
The Anxiety Hierarchy, Relaxation, Exposure
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How does Flooding help the Classical Conditioned Phobia?
By Extinction
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What does Beck state that causes Depression?
Faulty Information Processing, Negative Self-Schemas
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What are the Biological Approaches to Explaining OCD?
Candidate Genes, Polygenic, Different Types of OCD, Serotonin, Impaired Decision Making (Frontal Lobes, Parahippocampal Gyrus)
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How do SSRI's work?
Increase the amount of Serotonin in the Synapse, which stimulates the Post-Synaptic Neuron
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What are the Alternatives to SSRI's?
Tricyclics (same as SSRI's, used if px do not get on with SSRI's), SNRI's (increase Noradrenaline)
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What are the Alternatives to SSRI's?
Tricyclics (same as SSRI's, used if px do not get on with SSRI's), SNRI's (increase Noradrenaline)
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