PSYCH257 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Epigenome, Eric Kandel, Psychopathology
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Multidimensional integrative approach: approach to the study of psychopathology that hold that psychological disorders are always the products of multiple interacting casual factors. Biological dimensions include casual factors from the fields of genetics and neuroscience. Psychological dimensions include casual factors from behavioural and cognitive processes, including learned helplessness, social learning, prepared learning, and even unconscious processes. Emotional influences contribute to social and interpersonal influences. Developmental influences figure in any discussion of causes of psychological disorders. One-dimensional model is to accept that the disorder is because of a single cause. Most people think that it is because of multiple influences that cause disorders e. g. jody. He experiences fainting as his heart rate and blood pressure increased and then lowering quickly. Emotions can affect psychological responses and in his case triggered a stronger barareflec which increases or decreases blood pressure in an effort to maintain a stable blood pressure in the body.