PSY 3604 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Developmental Psychopathology, Implicit Memory, Learned Helplessness
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Multidimensional integrative approach: approach to the study of psychopathology that holds psychological disorders as always being the products of multiple interacting casual factors. Genes: long deoxyribonucleic acid (dna) molecules, the basic physical units of heredity that appear as locations on chromosomes, a single gene is a subunit of ddna that determines inherited traits in living things. Diathesis-stress model: hypothesis that both an inherited tendency (vulnerability) and specific stressful conditions are required to produce a disorder. Vulnerability: susceptibility or tendency to develop a disorder. Gene-environment correlation models: hypothesis that people with a genetic predisposition for a disorder may also have a genetic tendency to create environmental risk factors that promote the disorder. Epigenetics: the study of factors other than inherited dna sequence, such as new learning or stress, that alter the phenotypic expression of genes. Neuroscience: the study of the nervous system and its role in behavior, thoughts and emotions. Neuron: individual nerve cell, responsible for transmitting info.