psychology txtbook chapter 1.4

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what is the Biopsychological model

  • An approach that acknowledges that biological, psychological, and social structural factors interact to influence human behavior and mental processes.


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what are the three perspectives that comprise the biopsychosocial model

  • Biological

  • Psychological

  • social


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Biological

  • define

  • what are the three types


  • the attempt the explain behavior in a biological principles


  • neuroscience: the study of the brain and nervous system.


  • Behavioral genetics: how genes we inherit from our parents can interact with the environment to influence how we behave.


  • Evolutionary psychology: the inherited aspects of behavior, concerned with how environment influences genes as well


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Psychological

views behavior as the result of an individual psychological characteristic and shaped by psychological processes (thinking, memory, perception)

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social perspective


social norms

  • The focus on the importance of social context in influencing the behavior of individuals


  • rules that define acceptable and expected behavior from members of a group


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2 types of limitations associated with early research

  1. gender bias: a tendency for female and femal related issues to be unrepresented in research, whether psychological or otherwise, focusing on make participants, assuming results woule be more true


  1. WEIRD science: wester, educated, indsustrialized, rich, democratic societies.