Models of Abnormality Test

This test caused some people some problems - seemingly because of a lack of revision, intellectual power, or (in some serious cases) both. Alarmingly, some people can't tell the models apart, so here's a quick idiot's guide:

• Biological model - physical causes and 'brain stuff' - genes, infection, biochemistry (neurotransmitters) and neuroanatomy (brain structure)
  
• Psychodynamic - Frued; unconscious desires and memories, id, ego and superego, psychosexual stages, fixation and defence mechanisms
  
• Behavioural - simple associative learning; classical and operant conditioning; no biological or mental causes
  
• Cognitive - faulty thinking / negative beliefs / biases to attributions and memories

This topic is very simple - you just need to be able to write 6 marks worth of description and 6 marks worth of evaluation for each one.

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