Psychological Problems
Mental health issues | Diagnosable conditions in which a person’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours change and they are less able to cope/function |
Serotonin | Responsible for mood: sleep, aggression, appetite, memory |
Noradrenaline | Responsible for stress: flight or flight |
Synaptic transmission | The way that neurons communicate with each other. It involves a message being passed chemically |
Neuron | The purpose of a neuron is to communicate electrically and chemically. They can receive and send information to other cells |
Unipolar vs Bipolar | Unipolar depression is characterised by only the continuous low mood, while bipolar depression is characterised by the mania aswell. |
Synapse | the very small distance between neurons |
Reuptake | once the neuro transmitters are taken in by the next neuron, any leftover neurotransmitters are taken back in by the previous neuron ready to be re-used. |
selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors | The ----- molecules block the reuptake channels to prevent uptake |
Atributions | These are ways in which people explain the causes of behaviours and situations |
Internal attribution | Caused by dispositional factors such as personality or ability |
External attribution | Caused by situational factors, such as weather o r the economy |
Stable attribution | Caused by factors that do not change i.e. gender |
Unstable attribution | Caused by factors are temporary i.e. tiredness |
Addicted | Addiction is a psychological problem where people feel that they need to do something regularly to avoid negative feelings. |
Monozygotic | identical twins, share 100% of genes |
Dizygotic | non-identical twin, share 50% of genes |
Concordance rate | the presence of the same trait in both members of a pair of twins |
Holistic | Is a belief that all the parts of something are connected and are only able to be understood by looking at the whole picture |
Reductionist | The belief that something is only understood by simplifying its most fundamental basic aparts |