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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The last five decades have seen significant development in medical and biomedical technology and applications. The increase in research and development in fields such as biomechanics‚ biomaterials‚ cloning‚ tissue engineering‚ and medicine have spawned a whole new branch of philosophy aptly named bioethics. Bioethics‚ the study of the ethical and moral implications of biological research and biomedical advances‚ emerged in the early 1970s as its own discipline. As medical technology is improved
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Baddeley and Hitch (1974) developed an alternative model of short-term memory which they called the working memory model. The working memory model consists of four components. The central executive which controls and co-ordinates the operation of two subsystems‚ the phonological loop and the visuo-spatial sketchpad. The central executive controls attention and coordinates the actions of the other components‚ it can briefly store information‚ but has a limited capacity. The phonological loop consists
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the biomedical and social medical models of health. Look at the effects and impact of each model. You will need to give valid examples. In the essay i will contrast the two models‚ looking at their impacts and effects. Also will look at which one is more helpful/effective in society. In relation to social perspective‚ Biomedical and socio-medical are both different from each other in terms of how they view society and the way they deal with health. Biomedical model approach to ill-health is that
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The behavioural model suggest that all behaviours – including abnormality – is learnt. It suggests that we have very few innate characteristics that we are born with. According to the behavioural model there are three ways in which we learn‚ these include classical + operant conditioning and social learning theory. Classical conditioning is learning by associated‚ this is when we create a new stimulus response link by associating one stimulus to a response. For example little albert was conditioned
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is Baumol model. As an alternative to profit maximization model‚ Baumol model works on the correlation between price and output decision with the objective of maximizing sales revenue‚ subjected to minimum profit constraint by shareholders. In profit maximization model‚ profit is maximized at the output where Marginal Revenue (MR) is equaled to Marginal Cost (MC) whereas Baumol Model emphasizes on maximizing sales revenue (TR) and may miss the MC = MR point to achieve its goal. This model argues that
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by the Multi-Store Model was far too simple. Following the Multi-Store Model‚ it is believed that STM holds limited amounts of information for short periods of time with relatively little processing‚ it is believed to be a unitary store. This means that due to its single store it has no subsystems‚ unlike the Working Memory Model which has many subsystems. This proves that the Working Memory is not a unitary store. Working Memory is STM. In contrast to the Multi-Store Model‚ where all the information
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Theory used in the article: Health Belief Model (HBM) Article Title: Applying the Health Belief Model to college students’ health behavior Rationale provided by author: The authors implied rationale for using the Health Belief Model was to examine how and why college students’ health behaviors or health behavioral intentions develop (Kim‚ Ahn‚ & No‚ 2012). Alternate theory: Stages of Change (Transtheoretical) Model Rationale: 150-200 word paragraph explaining why the alternate theory might
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The Health Belief Model helps to explain and predict health behaviors. Through two assessments‚ the person will attempt to take preventive measures to achieve their health behavior. The two assessments are the threat that the person feels towards that problem and the other is the weighing of the pros and cons in changing their behavior (Sarafino et al.‚ 2015‚ p. 133). The first assessment of perceived threat has three factors. These three factors influence the person’s perception of the threat and
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The Working Memory Model (WMM) is a theory by Baddeley and Hitch in 1974. The theory replaces the idea that there is a single Short Term Memory (STM) from Atkinson and Shiffrin (1968)‚ it suggests that the STM is a flexible multi-component system. The WMM suggests that the STM is controlled by the Central Executive (CE) which controls attention‚ planning and synthesising information. The Central Executive is a flexible system which means it can process audio‚ visual and sound information‚ it also
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