PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Peripheral Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Central Nervous System
18 Oct 2011
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Multidimensional integrative approach approach to the study of psychopathology that holds that psychological disorders are always the products of multiple interacting causal factors: biological genetics, psychological behavioural and cognitive processes learned helplessness. Behavioural influences watching the movie and fainting classical conditioning. Biological influences vasovagal syncope low blood pressure in head. Emotional influences rapid increase in heartbeat caused by emotions triggered baroreflex. Social influences rejection by authority figures can make disorders worse. Support only when symptoms are experienced increases frequency and intensity of reaction. Genes long dna (deoxyribonucleic acid) molecules, the basic physical units of heredity, that appear as various locations on chromosomes, within the cell nucleus. In each pair, one chromosome comes from your father the other from your mother. Dominant gene one of a pair of genes that determines a particular trait. Recessive gene must be paired with another recessive gene.
