PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Aaron T. Beck, Psychoanalysis, Electromagnetic Coil
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His weak family structure and abuse, rejections and neglect may have led to his sever depression: sociocultural explanations: steve was raised in a high end society where the people were rich. He was also white and people expected males to be strict, assertive and powerful. He was neither so he thought of himself as a failure: model: a model describes a phenomenon or process that we cannot directly observe. The nerutransmitters relay messages across the synapse: gaba and serotonin have an inhibitory effect whereas epinephrine and neonephrine have excitatory effects, the enteric nervous sytem: embedded in the lining of the gastrointestinal system. It maintains homeostasis in the gastrointestinal processes such as digestion: neuropeptides: function as neurotransmitters and moderate biological processes within the ens and the central nervous system. Neuropeptides have the ability to directly or indirectly influence a variety of hormones and neurotransmitters.