PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Serotonin Transporter, Psychopathology, Psy

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Vannasone

Document Summary

In stress category things are either predisposing or precipitating predisposing: in the past. Precipitating: more recent (even just moving to university) etc: ex. If the stress gets to that point (even if there isn"t much diathesis) it will cause a disorder: ex. Testing the theory: background, people who have ll alleles cope better with stress than ss alleles, how does childhood maltreatment influence likelihood of depression among ll, Psychological disorder: environmental stress interacts with genetics to predict onset of mental disorders, stress moderates the effect of genetics of psychopathology. Doesn"t take into account various biological things such as her lack of sleep. Can be various factors that lead to the development of the disorder and also factors that keep the disorder going. Doesn"t take into account people who are distracted with most of their lives/having things to do and then they have a relaxing time they may enter into a depression because they will not have time to cope.