Psychology Psychopathology Key Terms

1. Aim to restore chemical imbalances in the brain since this is assumed to be the main cause of the disorder (OCD) (10, 10)

2. Behavioural therapy where the individual is exposed to the most anxiety-inducing stimulus immediately and forced to stay there till they calm down (8)
3. Definition of abnormality where a person is considered abnormal if they are unable to cope with the demands of everyday life and live independently in society (7, 2, 8)
4. Based on the assumption that faulty thinking make a person vulnerable to depression these treatments such as CBT and REBT, aim to challenge irrational thoughts and replace them with more rational thoughts (9, 10)
5. According to Beck, depression is caused by negative self-schemas maintaining a cognitive triad (5, 8, 5)
6. Based on the assumption that drugs can restore a neurochemical imbalance, which is seen as the cause of OCD (4, 9)
7. Ellis proposed this model to explain how irrational thoughts could lead to depression (5, 3, 5)
8. A process used in systematic desensitisation where the phobic stimuli are ranked from least to most fearful (4, 9)

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