PSYC 2280 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Online Analytical Processing, Explicit Memory, Implicit Cognition

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2280
• Professor: Langton

Document Summary

Multidimensional model: systemic and often interdisciplinary, and hold that a system of different reciprocal in- fluences interact in complex ways to yield the major etiological and maintaining processes responsible for abnor- mal behaviour. A multidimensional integrative approach to psychopathology includes influences that are: biological, psychological, emotional, social, developmental. 4/29/16: treatments may target one or more of these. Genes don"t determine parts of our development absolutely, but they do provide some boundaries; environmental influences determines where we go within them. Some characteristics are more genetically influenced than others; hair colour, eye colour, rare disorders. Genes are very long molecules of dna at various locations on chromosomes within the cell nucleus. 46 chromosomes, 23 pairs, one from each parent in each pair. Xx vs. xy: chromosomes in the 23rd pair are the sex chromosomes (in males father contributes a y chromosome) Gregor mendel"s pioneering work in the 19th century initially demonstrated that our physical characteristics are largely determined by genetic endowment.