Biological approach
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- Created on: 27-04-20 13:47
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- Biological Approach
- Assumptions
- our behavior and the way we experience things are due to our biology
- believe the environment does not have any influence on your condition
- genes, neurochemistry, brain structure and systems all have an influence on behavior
- Examples of how biology can influence our behavior
- Huntington's disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- Influence of the nervous system and endocrine system on behavior
- believe that chemical processes in the brain can influence behavior
- fight or flight response
- Evidence for biological approach
- Maturation theory
- created by Gessell
- suggests that the effects of the environmental are minimal
- Maturation theory
- Key terminology
- genes
- nature
- nurture
- diathesis stress model
- hormones
- Assumptions
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