PSYC 111 Study Guide - Spring 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Anxiety, Major Depressive Disorder, Schizophrenia
12 Oct 2018
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The scientific study of mind, brain and behavior. The crucial and important challenges of studying psychology: Most actions are multiply determined and cannot be determined by a single factor and thus, single-variable explanations should be ignored. Bad human behavior can be explained in terms of a single factor like poverty, genes, etc. but we must avoid jumping to such conclusions because there is a huge array of factors involved in it. Most psychological influences are dependent on each other for their meaning and thus, you cant explain one without taking help from another. Thus, you cant focus on one and label it as the cause. For example, anorexia nervosa is closely linked to anxiety-proneness, compulsive exercise, perfectionism. However, perfectionist women tend to be more nervous, exercise more and overly concerned with body image, thus, we cant determine which contributes to the other.
