Psychology paper 1- Psychopathology

Who selected the characteristics which show that someone is failing to function adequately?

Rosenhan & Seligman

Who select the 6 characteristics of ideal mental health?

Jahoda

Who did the Little Albert Experiment?

Watson & Rayner

Who found that 73% of people with a phobia of dental treatments had had a traumatic experience?

Ad de Jongh

Who developed systematic desensitisation?

Wolpe

Who found that 75% of phobia patients responded very well to systematic desensitisation?

McGrath

Who found that flooding is more effective than systematic desensitisation?

Choy

Who proposed that people might have a cognitive vulnerability to depression?

Beck

Who believed that depression was caused by faulty information processing, negative self-schemas and the negative triad?

Beck

Who tracked children with a cognitive vulnerability to depression and predicted later depression?

Cohen

Who believed that depression was due to irrational thinking?

Ellis

Who came up with the ABC Model to explain depression?

Ellis

Who came up with a cognitive therapy in which the patient identifies negative thoughts related to the negative triad and works with the therapist to challenge them?

Beck

Who came up with a cognitive therapy in which the therapist disputes irrational beliefs with logical, empirical and pragmatic disputes- known as REBT?

Ellis

Who found that CBT was good for people with learning difficulties?

Taylor et al

Who found that CBT and SSRIs both improved 81% of patients' lives and when used together improved 86%?

March et al

Who found that 37% of their patients with OCD had a parent with OCD, supporting the theory of a genetic vulnerability?

Leun

Who found 230 possible candidate genes for OCD?

Taylor

Who found that people with a first degree relative with OCD were 5x more likely to develop it than the general population?

Nestadt

Who found that over half of OCD patients had had a traumatic experience, showing the impact of environmental factors on the development of OCD and supporting the diathesis stress model?

Cromer et al

Who compared serotonin levels in people with and without OCD and found that levels were significantly lower in people with OCD?

Hu

Who used neuroimaging to see the relationship between OCD and frontal lobes and found that there is more activity in the frontal lobes of people with OCD than depression?

Borkowska et al

Who did a meta analysis of studies comparing the effects of SSRIs and placebos on OCD and found that SSRIs reduced symptoms in 70% of patients?

Soomro

Who found that cognitive and behavioural therapies are more effective than SSRIs when treating OCD?

Skapinakis