PSYC 305 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Adrenocorticotropic Hormone, Abram Kardiner, Phallic Stage
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Necessary, sufficient, and contributory causes: necessary cause. A condition that must exist for a disorder to occur. If disorder y occurs, then cause x must have preceded it. Can"t have huntington"s (disorder y) without the gene it 15 (cause. A condition that guarantees the occurrence of a disorder. If cause x occurs, then disorder y will also occur. Hopelessness is a sufficient cause of depression: contributory cause. A cause that increases the probability of a disorder. If x occurs, then the probably of disorder y increases. Parental rejection can cause difficulties in child"s life later on. Reinforcing contributory cause: a condition that tends to maintain maladaptive behaviour that is already occurring (if you"re sick and everyone is treating you extra special, you might not want to get better) Time frames: must also consider the time frame under which the different causes operate, distal causal factors. Causal factors occurring relatively early in life that don"t show their effects until much later.
