PSYCH 3830 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Sympathetic Nervous System, Autonomic Nervous System, Somatic Nervous System
22 Jan 2017
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This chapter examines the specific components of a multidimensional integrative. Most scientists and clinicians believe abnormal behavior results from multiple approach to psychopathology. Biological dimensions include causal factors from the fields of genetics and neuroscience. Psychological dimensions include causal factors from behavioral 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. Finally, 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. A system, or feedback loop, may have independent inputs at many different points, but as each input becomes part of the whole it can no longer be considered independent.
