PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Allosome, Baroreflex, Cell Nucleus
14 Nov 2017
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Biological dimensions include causal factors from the fields of genetics and neuroscience. Psychological dimensions include causal factors from behavioural and cognitive processes including learned helplessness, social learning, prepared learning and even unconscious processes. Emotional influences contribute in a variety of ways to psychopathology, as do social and interpersonal influences. Development influences figure in any discussion of causes of psychological disorders. Jodi"s fainting caused disruptions in school and home : Conditioned response to sight of blood: similar situations - even words - produce same reaction. Tendency to escape and avoid situations involving blood. Genes: are very long molecules of dna at various locations on chromosomes within the cell nucleus. Except for identical twins every human has a unique set of genes unlike those of anyone else in the world. In each pair one chromosome comes from the father and the other from the mother. Sex chromosomes = determine ones sex, female = xx and male = xy.
