PSYC 235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Gregor Mendel, Grey Matter, Personality Disorder
15 Nov 2017
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Catharsis: an awareness/awakening to some upsetting/subconscious things that are driving a set of behaviours. Very few patients change in therapy without some distress. Genes, environment, behaviour coming together to be multidimensional. Emphasis on a specific cause of abnormal behaviour. Problems occur when info from other areas are ignored: example. All of the above are important because they contribute in varying amounts depending on the situation. Gregor mendel: determined dominance in genetic traits and demonstrated inheritance, did this with his pea plants. Behaviour is polygenic influenced by many genes: genes are influenced by environment. Gene environment interactions contribute to psychological disorders: adverse life events can overwhelm the influence of genes to alter genetic expression of certain genes. Diathesis stress model: diathesis (vulnerability) is genetically based, stress is environmental, diathesis +stress = disorder. You have a certain genetic disposition/vulnerability towards a certain disease ie. alcoholism. It is additive so diathesis + stress = disorder if enough of each is added to the.
