Assignment 1: Read chapter 2 of your textbook and answer the following: (3 point
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Assignment 1: Read chapter 2 of your textbook and answer the following: (3 points for each question total 18 points) 1. Define "Paradigm" in psychopathology 2. What is "Reciprocal Gene-Environment Interaction"? 3. What is stress? Explain how stress can cause mental illness. 4. Discuss how "Cognitive behavior therapy" operates. 5. Describe how "emotion" influence the problem and challenges in our environment. 6. Illustrate the result of the researches and findings about the influence of sociocultural factors to different psychological disorders.
Explanation / Answer
1. Paradigm in psychopathology is the conceptual framework which is used by the researcher or the scientist to evaluate, understand and explain the various aspects of psychopathology.
2. "Reciprocal Gene- Environment Interaction" - the genetic aspects of some individuals make them vulnerable to develop psychological disorders when they undergo adverse circumstances in their environment. This genetic disposition to develop psychological issues due to environment interaction is "Reciprocal Gene-Environment Interaction".
3. Stress is a condition of mental and bodily imbalance that occurs due to the huge difference in the actual situation and the demanded situation or the ability of an individual to fulfill the demands/needs according to the situation. Stress are events of life that can pressurize the individuals and trigger many types of psychological issues at any point of life.
4. "Cognitive Behavioral Therapy": Cognitive behavioral therapy focuses to understand the cognitive processes of the individuals as their private thoughts, perceptions, judgements, implicit assumptions and their perception about themselves to modify and understand their behavioral issues.
5. The "Emotions" direct an individual's response to a situation. It helps to organize the thoughts and actions both explicitly and implicitly. Thus, emotions influence the behaviors of the individuals towards the problems and challenges in their environment.
6. Results of research and findings give evidences that socio-cultural factors as poverty, gender discrimination, racism, discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and expression etc play an important role in developing various psychological problems as depression, anxiety etc in individuals facing these socio-cultural problems.