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| Definition of psychopathology | Abnormal behavior |
| Mental disorders and biological make-up | Genetics, nerve cell activities, CNS and psychology, brain activity and structure |
| Frontal lobe controls | Planning of movements, recent memory, some emotion |
| Parietal lobe controls(top) | body sensations |
| Occipital lobe controls (back of brain) | vision |
| Temporal lobe (bottom) | hearing, advanced visual processing. |
| The forebrain controls | controls higher mental functions. Most advanced |
| Thalamus controls | relay station |
| Hypothalamus controls (Four F's) | Drives fluid (thirst), food (hunger), feel (temperature), Fucking (sex) |
| Hippocampus controls | memory |
| Midbrain controls | Vision and hearing |
| Hindbrain controls (Mike the headless chicken) | Heart rate, sleep, respiration. |
| Chemical imbalances (lack/excess serotonin, dipomine, etc.) | underlie mental disorders |
| Criticisms of biological models | Diathesis- Stress theory (nature vs. nurture), environmental, societal, cultural influences, helplessness. |
| Freud believed | Psychodynamic models (Adult disorders stemmed from childhood experiences) psychoanalysis |
| Id | Pleasure principle (child) |
| Ego | Reality principle. Balance; mediator, psychosexual stage |
| Superego | Society values; morals |
| Stages and fixations (5 Stages) | Oral (0-1; alcoholism, ciggs), anal stage (2; control), Phallic stage (3-6), Latency (6-12), Genital (puberty +) |
| Defence Mechanisms | Denial, projection, reaction formation, rationalization, regression, displacement, repression, sumblimination |
| Projective tests include | Ambiguous stimuli, Rorschach, TAT (Thematic Apperception Test) |
| Post-Freudian Perspectives include | Less emphasis on sex, freedom of choice and goals, social forces, treatment of seriously disturbed people |
| Classical conditioning: UCS | Unconditioned stimuli |
| Classical conditioning: UCR | Unconditioned response |
| Classical conditioning: CR | Conditioned response |
| Classical conditioning: CS | Conditioned stimulus |
| Observational learning model | Behaviors acquired by watching someone perform those behaviors. |
| Humanistic and existential approaches | Explore healty personalities, "reality" is subjective, free choice/personal responsibility, positive view of individual (Carl Rogers) |
| Existential Approach | Quest for meaning of life, Individual in context of human condition, Responsibilities to others and oneself |
| Difference between existential and humanistic approach | Less optimistic than humanistic |
