PSY240H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sympathetic Nervous System, Parasympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System
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Biological dimensions include causal factors from the fields of genetics and neuroscience. Psychological dimesnions include causal factors from behavioural and cognitive processes, including learned helplessness, social learning, prepared learning, and even unconscious processes: emotional influences contribute in a variety of ways to psychopathology, as do social and interpersonal influences. Developmental influences figure in any discussion of causes of psychological disorders. Each dimension, biological or psychological, is strongly influenced by the others and by development, and they weave together in various complex and intricate ways to create a psychological disorder. However, most scientists and clinicians believe abnormal behaviour results from multiple influences. A system may have independent inputs at many different points, but as each input becomes part of the whole, it can no lnger be considered independent. This implies that any particular influence contributing to psychopathology cannot be considered out of context.
