Outline and evaluate psychological explanations for schizophrenia (24) One psychological explanation of SZ was put forward by Bateson et al (1956) who looked at childhood as a base for developing SZ‚ for example the interactions children have with their mothers. His explanation‚ the Double Bind theory‚ states that schizophrenia can occur due to conflicting messages given from parents to their children‚ for example when a parent expresses care but does so in a critical way. This means that the child
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Discuss explanations of gender dysphoria (8+16) One psychological explanation is that gender dysphoria is caused by childhood trauma or a maladaptive upbringing.The psychodynamic approach believes that gender dysphoria is a mental disorder. Coates studied one boy who developed gender dysphoria and suggested that this may have been a defensive reaction to his mother’s depression following an abortion. Gender dysphoria is confusion and sufferers experience a strong sense of discomfort whilst feeling
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InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI: 10.1002/bsl.595 Serial Murder in America: Case Studies of Seven Offenders James O. Beasley II‚ B.S.‚ M.P.A.* This article summarizes and compares information on seven interviewed serial killers in an ongoing project designed to study similarities and differences among these individuals. The aim of this article is to increase our collective knowledge of the dynamics of serial murder by examining the perpetrators’ backgrounds‚ as well as the unique
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Outline and Evaluate the Main Psychological Explanations of Forgetting in both the Short and Long Term Memory Psychologists study memory because it is important to understand how a person remembers‚ how they forget‚ and whether memory is reliable source of past information; this research is particularly important in the case of eyewitness testimonies. Memory is the process whereby a person holds on to information they have experienced. Psychologists categorise memory into 3 processes; encoding
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Discuss Psychological explanations of one eating disorder. (8+16) Psychological explanations of obesity include the psychodynamic and the behaviourist approach. Behaviourism suggests three means by which obesity may occur; classical conditioning‚ operant conditioning and social learning theory. There is a great deal of evidence for the behavioural explanation. Classical conditioning is where eating becomes associated with other behaviours that are often routine‚ leading to eating when not hungry
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2005 What twists a man so far as murder? Many things today confuse‚ yet enthrall the masses. War‚ murder‚ medical science‚ incredible rescues‚ all things you would see on The History Channel. There is another topic that is also made into documentaries however‚ serial killers. Dark twisted people that commit multiple murders are of interest to the population‚ but what caused them to be this way. What horrible tragic set of events could twist a man to murder one or many people. Could Schizophrenia
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it‚ like serial killers‚ and what drives them to do what they do. Many scientists are still researching whether or not if serial killers are driven by the way they were raised or if it is a part of their genes. This literature review will analyze what people think about the nature versus nurture debate. It will talk about the nature side and the nurture side of the debate. What is a serial killer? Eric Hickey (2012) in “Serial Killers: Defining Serial Murder” defines what a serial killer is
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Outline and Evaluate Psychological Explanations for one eating disorder The psychodynamic approach suggests unconscious conflicts from childhood may be the reason for an eating disorder. As adolescent girls are most likely to have the disorder‚ it suggests that anorexia might be due to fear of increasing sexual desires and starvation is a way to avoid becoming pregnant because one of the symptoms of anorexia nervosa is the absence of a menstrual cycle. Another psychodynamic explanation suggests anorexia
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Introduction Mass murderers and serial killers display the same characteristics such as lack of empathy and manipulation but they are different. What differentiates the two is the number of murders as well as the timing of these murders. While serial killers commit the murders over an extended period in different locations‚ mass murderers commit the murders at the same time in a single location. Serial murder A serial killer is someone who murders more than three people over a period of a month
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are many different types of serial killers. Process-focused serial killers get enjoyment from torture and the slow death of their victims. These include three different types of hedonists’ lust‚ thrill and gain and power-seeking killers. Lust killers derive sexual pleasure from killing. Thrill killers get a "kick" from it. Gain killers murder because they believe they will profit in some way. Power killers wish to "play God" or be in charge of life and death. Some serial killers have been diagnosed
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