Abnormal
key term meaning behaviour is abnormal if its rare or statistically uncommon
What is statistical infrequency?
key term- repetitive behaviours performed to reduce anxiety
What is compulsions?
What drug is used to treat depression
SSRIs
What is the emotional characteristic of phobias ?
fear
This approach explains behaviour by mental processes such as schemas and internal information processing.
What is the cognitive approach?
Name the 2 limitations of deviation from social norms
Culture and time
low levels cause impaired communication between neurons, leading to obsessive thinking and compulsions
What is serotonin?
Name 3 emotional characteristics of depression
Low mood/apathy, anger, worthlessness
In the two-process model which type of learning causes you to acquire phobias?
Classical conditioning
This therapy disputes faulty beliefs and replaces them with rational alternatives
What is CBT?
This approach to abnormality is based on being able to cope with the personal experience but is criticised for being too subjective
What is FFA?
Name the 3 cognitive characteristics of OCD
Obsessive thoughts, hypervigilance, cognitive distortions
Name 3 cognitive characteristics of depression
poor concentration, absolutist/ utopian thinking, dwelling
Which type of learning maintains phobias?
Operant conditioning via negative reinforcement
What does Ellis' ABC model stand for?
Activating event- belief- consequence
identified the distinct signs that indicate FTFA, including:
severe personal distress
behaviour which 'stands out' or seems to go against social norms
behaving irrationally
self-inflicted harm
Who defined this?
Rosenhan & Seligman (1989)
Name 4 emotional characteristics of OCD
Anxiety, distress, guilt, disgust
What does this refer to: Negative views about: the self; the world; the future
Beck's negative triad
A behaviour therapy using hierarchy, relaxation and gradual exposure to reduce anxiety
What is systematic desensitisation
Multiple genes working together maybe responsible for vulnerablities to OCD
What is polygenic explanation
Name the 6 criterion in Jahoda's definition of ideal mental health
positive attitude towards self, self-actualisation, autonomy, resistance to stress, accurate perception of reality, environment mastery
Which part of the brain is abnormal in those with OCD whose role is to supress unnecessary signals from the orbitofrontal cortex?
What is the caudate nucleus?
Name 4 most common behavioural characteristics of depression
reduced activity, disruption to sleep/ eating, aggression and self-harm
Includes exposing the patient to their feared stimulus in one intense, prolongs session until anxiety levels drop
What is flooding?
1000 points if you get one of these correct:
if you are acrobphobe what are you afraid of?
If you are a koumpounophobe what are you afraid of?
If you are a Nomophobia what are you afraid of?
tall buildings
Buttons
Being without a phone