Biological Approach
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- Created on: 13-05-16 09:42
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- Biological Approach
- Strengths
- Scientific Approach: Neuroscience, Drug therapy
- Deterministic Approach: Predetermines our behaviour, Schizophrenia.
- Successful Application: Placebo's, depression, drug therapy.
- Weaknesses
- Reductionist Approach: Understanding how the system works, Adrenaline
- Nature rather than Nurture: Biological (Nature), Life experiences (Nurture)
- Individual Differences: Nomothetic: Hormones Oxytocin
- Evolutionary Influences
- Charles Darwin - Natural Selection, survival of the fittest
- EEA - Environment of Evolutionary Adaptiveness.
- Changes with the time, theory of evolution explains how the human mind and behaviour has changed.
- Localisation of Brain Functions
- Refers to the principle that certain areas of the brain are responsible for different functions.
- Four Lobes: Frontal - responsible for thinking and creativity. Temporal - Responsible of memory
- Neurotransmitters
- Electrically excitable cell that form the basis of the nervous system.
- One neuron communicates with another at a synapse, where the message is relayed by chemical messengers.
- Mental Health
- Low levels of Serotonin = Depression
- High levels of Dopamine = Symptoms of Schizophrenia
- Strengths
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