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Module 10 Flashcards

  • Somatogenic hypothesis = mental disorders have physiological causes 

  • Psychogenic hypothesis = symptoms are caused by psychological processes

  • Biopsychosocial model = health and illness caused by the interplay between biological, psychological, and social factors

  • Diathesis-stress model = disorders arise from a combination of an individual's genetic or biological predisposition (diathesis) and a trigger (stress)

  • Mental disorder = dysfunctional patterns of thoughts, feelings, or behaviors that interfere with daily life

  • Psychotic symptoms =  delusions (false beliefs) and hallucinations (perceiving things not there

  • Positive symptoms = any change in behaviour or thoughts, including hallucinations or delusions

  • Negative symptoms = absence or lack of normal function

  • Psychotherapy = treatment that involves talking with a mental care provider 

  • Psychodynamic therapies = family of treatment approaches that descended from psychotherapy 

  • Existential and humanistic traditions = individual's subjective experience, freedom of choice, maximum potential, and self-acceptance; people must take responsibility of their lives and actions and live in the present

  • Behavior therapists = view negative behavior as a problem to be solved; all behaviors are a result of learning and to solve it would require new learning 

  • Cognitive therapy = focuses on what people think rather than what they do 

  • Cognitive-behavioral therapy =  identify and modify negative or unhelpful thoughts, feelings, and behaviors

  • Mindfulness = cultivating a nonjudgmental and attentive mental state; awareness and focusing on bodily state 

  • Meta-analysis = combining results across multiple trials to see whether treatment works

  • Eclecticism = drawing on multiple perspectives; tailoring a approach to a specific person

  • Confirmation bias = tendency to favor certain information or beliefs

  • Illusory correlation = tendency to perceive casual relationships when there are none

  • Bias blind spot = inclination to perceive biases in others but not ourselves 

  • Biomedical treatment =  physiological interventions, like medications and medical procedures,

  • Electroconvulsive therapy = using electrical current to induce seizures to help alleviate the effects of mental disorders 

  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation = painless application or repeated electromagnetic pulses 

  • Deep brain stimulation = involves surgically implanting a kind of brain pacemaker that sends out electrical impulses to specific areas of the brain to help normalize brain activity