PSY 3171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Peripheral Nervous System, Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid, Central Nervous System
18 Nov 2016
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Biological tradition: good or poor mental health with depend on your genes ex. Personality traits: you can see personality traits at birth. Sex: can affect a disorder without being from your hormones. Psychological: perception of things in their lives etc. Attributional style: where you attribute the blame for something will determine how you feel. I didn"t study enough or i am stupid. Social/spiritual tradition: do you have close friends- social relationships. Gender role: your identification as man or women. Biological tradition and mental health: polygenetic: lots of things happening genetically that on their own that don"t contribute to a mental health problem but more of them. Multidimensional integrative approach: approach to the study of psychopathology that holds that psychological disorders are always the products of multiple interacting causal factors. Psychology and psychopathology use multidimensional approaches because there are usually more than one factor causing the dysfunction.
