Outline and evaluate the biological approach to psychopathology The biological approach to psychopathology suggests that abnormal behaviour is caused or related to physical changes in the body. The biological approach suggest that the four following things cause physical disorders (abnormality) ; genes‚ biochemistry‚ neuroanatomy and viral infection. Psychologists have investigated the role in which gene’s play in abnormal behaviour. To do this the majority of psychologists use twins. It has been
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Outline and evaluate the working memory model (12 marks) Baddeley and Hitch proposed that memory has 4 components. The central executive‚ phonological loop‚ visuospatial sketchpad and the episodic buffer. The central executive decides how to share out and direct attention to incoming information. The phonological loop can be thought of as a maintenance rehearsal mechanism for retaining verbal information. It is sub-divided into two other components‚ the phonological store (inner ear)‚ which holds
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Sables (2000) explains that with Attachment Theory it helps to explain how early childhood experiences affect the way people act and interact with others as adults. In the case of Mary Ann‚ she lost her mother at the age of 3 to leukemia. She has no memories of her mother and does not speak about her much to anyone nor does her family‚ when asked about her mother she shows a flicker of sadness in her eyes and states that she’s dead and leaves the conversation at that. Li et. al.‚ (2008) states
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UEES | Krashen´s Theory | Theory of Second Language Acquisition | | Gisella Coka | 13/01/2012 | "Language acquisition does not require extensive use of conscious grammatical rules‚ and does not require tedious drill." Stephen Krashen | This paper is going to talk about Krashen’s theory of second language acquisition‚ which has had a large impact in all areas of second language research and teaching since the 1980s. There are 5 keys hypotheses about second language acquisition in
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• S-R Theory • Stimulus • Response • Theory • Classical conditioning • The memory system that links perceptual information to the proper motor response • Necessary component: Observable Experiments • The probability of a verbal response is conditional on four things: reinforcement‚ stimulus control‚ deprivation‚ and aversive stimulation. • If a dog brought its human a ball and the human pet it‚ the dog’s behavior would be reinforced‚ and it would be more apt to getting the ball
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Outline and evaluate the biological model of abnormality (12 marks) The biological model of abnormality is the idea that all behaviour is rooted in underlying physical processes. The biological model of abnormality assumes that there is a physiological reason for psychological disorders. The disorders are considered an illness and supposedly make a person with these ’disorders’ abnormal. The model indicates that mental illnesses resemble physical illnesses and are thought to be treated in a similar
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Outline and Evaluate strategies for memory improvement. (12 marks) The first main memory improvement technique is the use of verbal mnemonics that focuses around words. For example acronyms‚ (where a word or sentence is formed from the initial letters of other words) e.g. - UNICEF - The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. Another technique is an acrostic (a poem or sentence where the first letter in each line/word forms the method used for the item being remembered). E-g Homework
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Outline and evaluate the biological explanation of depression. Biological explanation of depression can be explained by neurotransmitter dysfunction. Neurotransmitters such as noradrenalin and serotonin have been shown to be linked with depression. Bunney at al (1965) found that there was low levels of noradrenaline function in the brain of depressed individuals. Also‚ post mortem studies found increased noradrenaline receptors in the brains of depressed suicide victims. When there is low noradrenaline
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relationship as an adaptive strategy primates developed‚ with emphasis on attachment theory. The root of the mother-infant relationship as well as a child’s development can be linked to John Bowlby’s theory of attachment. Bowlby‚ a British psychoanalyst‚ developed the theory after running a study in which he attempted to understand the intense distress experienced by infants who had been separated from their parents. Upon separation‚ Bowlby observed the lengths to which infants would go in order to prevent
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Outline and Evaluate Biological Treatments for Schizophrenia. The meaning of Schizophrenia is the loss of contact with reality also known as split-mind. It shouldn’t be thought of as one disorder as there are several sub-types such as; paranoia‚ catatonic‚ disorganised‚ and undifferentiated; they all have different symptoms. It is a disorder which is estimated at 1% of the population and is more common in males‚ lower social classes and African-Caribbean’s living in the U.K. Schizophrenia is characterised
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