PSYO 2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Thyroid, Frontal Lobe, Temporal Lobe
14 Jan 2016
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Multidimensional integrative approach: includes look at the biological, social behaviour, and emotional and cognitive influences of psychology as one and how the causal factors of each interact: biological, psychological, emotional. Causal factors from the fields of genetics and neuroscience. Causal factors from behavioural and cognitive processes. Includes learned helplessness, social learning, prepared learning, and even unconscious process. Contribute in a variety of ways to psychopathology, as do social and interpersonal influences: developmental. Comes in to play in any discussion of causes of psychological. No one influence operates in isolation: each dimension is strongly influenced by the others and by disorders development. They weave together in various complex and intricate ways to create a psychological disorder. Developmental critical period: a period of time when we are more or less reactive to a given situation or influence than other times. Except for identical twins, every person has a unique set of genes unlike anyone else in the world.
