PSYC*3140 Chapter 2: Chapter Two notes.docx
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Multidimensional integrative approach: 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 and even unconscious processes. Causes of psychological disorders intertwine with one another to cause a trigger multiple factors: biological influences, behavioural influences, emotional and cognitive influences, social influences. In some cases, such as schizophrenia or phobias, the cause can to directed to a single cause. However, in many cases, multiple factors can contribute to a psychological disorder. Factors: behavioural influences, biological influences, emotional influences, social influences, developmental influences. Genes: long molecule of dna at various locations on chromosomes within the cell nucleus. Normal human cell has 46 chromosomes arranged in 23 pairs. In each pair one comes from the father and the other the mother. The first 22 pairs of chromosomes provide programs for the development of the body and brain.
