Eating Disorders
Name the two most common types of eating disorders
What is anorexia nervosa and bulimia?
They examined the role of the 5-HTT gene in depression and hypothesized that people who inherit two short versions of the 5-HTT gene are more likely to develop major depression after a stressful life event
Who is Caspi?
Cognitive-behavioural therapy [CBT] is a blend of two therapies:
What is cognitive therapy and behavioural therapy?
What longitudinal study using twins, found that depression was genetically influenced.
What is Kendler?
How many marks total is Paper 1?
What is 49 marks?
This study showed that television increased the EAT-26 score in Fijian girls from 12.7% to 29.2%.
Who is Becker?
This hypothesis of depression argues that a reduction in serotonin leads to increased predisposition to depression.
What is the serotonin hypothesis?
A form of psychotherapy used in the treatment of adolescent patients with anorexia nervosa helps a person with anorexia see and understand the often dysfunctional role they play
What is family systems therapy?
This is the type of treatment used with group therapy where the people learn to focus and concentrate to be able to prevent negative thoughts.
What is mindfulness based therapy?
How many questions do you answer for Section B in Paper 1?
What is 1 question?
The idea that people living with anorexia appear to have schema that distort their perception of their body image
What is the Body-image distortion hypothesis?
Beck's theory of depression has three components
The Negative cognitive triad, negative schemas, cognitive biases
This drug treatement blocks the process of re-uptake and thus allow there to be higher levels of serotonin in the synapse.
What are SSRIs – or Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors?
This term refers to a limitation of highly artificial laboratory experiments.
What is ecological validity?
How many questions exist on Paper 2?
What is 12 questions?
When we focus on certain stimuli and ignore others. When making a decision, we often focus on just a few of the options while we ignore the rest.
What is Attentional Bias?
The model claims that depression may be the result of a hereditary predisposition interacting with the environment.
What is the diathesis-stress model?
Also known as "intercultural counseling" or "multicultural therapy." This is when the therapist is from a different culture from the patient. The therapist adapts therapeutic methods that have been shown to be effective to meet the cultural needs of the patient.
What is Cross-cultural psychotherapy?
Name four ethical considerations.
What is the right to informed consent, the right to be free from harm, the right to confidentiality, and the right to debriefing
The total number of hours for all HL IB Psych May exams.
What is 5 hours?
These studies look at variations in the alleles of people with a condition and those without. They look for genetic markers, that is, genetic variations to determine ED.
What are Genome Wide Association Studies?
When describing symptoms of depression we use the ABC'S -
What is - affective, behavioural, cognitive, and somatic?
In these studies, where some of the participants are given the treatment, others are given a fake treatment (the placebo), and neither the researchers nor the participants know which is which until the study ends; thus, they are both "blind."
What is a Double-blind placebo-controlled study?
What are the three types of Question 3 on Paper 3?
Name the 5 ERQ criteria, by name.
What is focus on the question, knowledge and understanding, use of research, critical thinking, and organisation/clarity