PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Autism Spectrum, Attachment Theory, Central Nervous System
26 Mar 2018
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An integrative approach to psychopathology: models of abnormal behaviour. One-dimensional models: posit single causes of psychopathology (e. g. , it"s all conditioning, it"s all biology, it"s all social or psychological) Any biological or environmental in uence can become part of this system and cannot be considered in an isolated context. To identify the causes of various psychological disorders, we must consider the interaction of all relevant dimensions: genetic contributions, the role of the nervous system, behavioural and cognitive processes, emotional in uences, social and interpersonal in uences, and developmental factors. We have arrived at a multidimensional integrative approach to the causes of psychological disorders: biological contributions to psychopathology. In studying causal relationships in psychopathology, researchers look at the interactions of genetic and environmental effects. Gene-environment correlation model: genetic vulnerability makes it likely to experience stressor that triggers genetic vulnerability. Epigenetics and nongenomic inheritance of behaviour include immediate effects of environment turn genes on and off, inherited.
