Download Day 4: Integrated Model 2

Integrative Approach to
Abnormal Behavior
Chapter 2
genetic
brain
emotional
developmental
psychological
disorder
cognitive
social
behavioral
The Contributions of Behavioral and Cognitive
Science
 Conditioning and Cognitive Processes
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Respondent (classical) and operant learning
Learned helplessness (Seligman) as a paradigm for
understanding depression. Attributional model
Modeling and vicarious learning (social learning)-symbolic
representations of experiences of others.
Prepared learning-notion of being “wired to learn”.
 Cognitive Science and the Unconscious
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Implicit learning, Stroop paradigm
 Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
The Role of Emotion in Psychopathology
 The Nature of Emotion
 Defined as a tendency to behave in a particular way, elicited
by an external event and feeling state, and accompanied by
characteristic physiological responses.
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To elicit or evoke motion
Action tendency different from affect (momentary emotional
tone) and mood (more persistent period of affect or emotionality.
Intimately tied with several forms of psychopathology
 Components of Emotion
 Behavior, physiology, and cognition
 Example of fear
The Role of Emotion in Psychopathology
 Harmful Side of Emotional Dysregulation
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Anger, hostility, emotional suppression, illness, and
psychopathology
Cultural, Social, and Interpersonal
Factors in Psychopathology
 Cultural Factors
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Influence the form and expression of normal and abnormal
behavior
 Gender Effects-linked to specific disorders, e.g.,
depression, ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder,
bulimia.
 Social Relationships
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Frequency and quality related to mortality, disease, and
psychopathology
Interpersonal Psychotherapy
 Stigma of Psychopathology Is Culturally, Socially,
and Interpersonally Situated
Life-Span and Developmental
Influences Over Psychopathology
 Life-Span Developmental Perspective
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Addresses developmental changes, and critical periods of
development during which we might be more “vulnerable”.
Example of childhood cancer.
Such changes influence and constrain what is normal and
abnormal, i.e., senescence and memory problems.
 The Principle of Equifinality
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Concept in developmental psychopathology
Several paths to a given outcome
Paths may operate differentially at different
developmental stages
Summary of the Multidimensional
Perspective of Psychopathology
 Multiple Causation
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Is the rule, not the exception in explaining normal and
abnormal behavior
 Take a Broad, Comprehensive, Systemic Perspective
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Addressing biological, psychological, social, cultural, and
developmental factors
 Useful in Understanding the Causes of
Psychopathology and its Alleviation
genetic
brain
emotional
developmental
psychological
disorder
cognitive
social
behavioral