PSYC 1004 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Richard Mulcaster, Major Depressive Disorder, Dysthymia
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Development: nature and nurture is a false dichotomy-- behaviors, personalities, etc. are always a product of. Nature and nurture: created by richard mulcaster-- 1582, nature: biological endowment (now called genetic inheritance, nurture: the environmental conditions in which individual develops, together, the two forces impact child development. Some people were born smart, some people weren"t but in their development they. If you talk about the development of some behavioral characteristic in an individual, you are always talking about multiple causal factors: almost all psychological problems/disorders are caused by some combination of biological and environmental factors. Sad enough to not perform normal daily activities; getting in the way of your life, but short: dysthymic disorder: not as severe as major depression-- longer lasting, the blues; just kind of bleh attitude, causes, biological theories. About 50% of people with depression have some family history (% age is higher for bipolar disorder)
