Biological approach attempts to understand two major issues: the relationship between mind and body and the influence of heredity on behavior. The two primary concerns of biological approach are the workings of nervous system and the role of heredity in behavior. Bio psychologists investigate how all the electrical impulses‚ hormones and chemical flowing through the body can affect behavior. They are concerned with how the aspects of biology affect emotions of individuals‚ learning abilities and
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occasionally drink types of alcohol like beer and wine to release tension after daily labour or other ordeals. However‚ prolonged intake of alcoholic drinks can lead to a breakdown in health of the body‚ the brain system and the state of mind. Alcoholism will induce problems to the digestive system of the body where it causes euphoria. Drinking alcohol may depress appetite which in turn makes heavy drinkers eat poorly and become malnourished. Other than that‚ an individual will less likely eat enough
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Outline and evaluate the biological approach to abnormality? The biological or medical approach regards abnormality as illness or disease. Mental illness is thought to be related to the physical structure and functioning of the brain. There are four possible causal factors of abnormality: brain damage‚ infection‚ biochemistry and genes. The first factor is brain damage. Abnormal behaviour may occur if the structure of the brain is damaged in some way. Once disease or brain damage has caused mental
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Outline and Evaluate the biological approach to abnormality The biological approach sees abnormality as a physical illness and removes psychological blame and responsibility for the behaviour form the patients. Biochemistry; which is where abnormal functioning in the brain can be caused by abnormal levels of neurotransmitters and hormones. Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers that allow neurones to communicate with one another at synapses. Hormones are chemical messengers that are secreted
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The biological approach is another main school in psychology which focuses on the body and mind and how our brains affect behaviour. Charles Darwin was one of the first psychologists to look into this approach when he created evolutionary psychology. Darwin believed in Natural Selection‚ that humans and animals changed and adapted in order to survive. The changes that increased survival would be inherited and passed to the next generation and those that decreased survival would be lost‚ this is natural
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The biological approach to psychology which looks at physical aspects controlling behaviour such as the structures of the brain‚ gives evidence that both nature and nurture are involved in our behaviour. For instance a study which compared the incidence of schizophrenia in MZ and DZ twins (Gottesman and Shields (1966)) found a concordance rate of 40% for the MZs but only 9% for the DZs. As arguably the only material differences between these groups was the fact that MZs share 100% genetic material
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it destroys you‚ and your family. You can pretty much say that alcoholism can and most likely will destroy everything if you do not receive proper treatment. Alcohol is a very serious matter in today’s society and leads to many social‚ economic‚ and health problems; alcoholism can be put to an end if it was illegal and less prominent in everyday life. What many people do not understand is that alcoholism is a disease. “Alcoholism is a progressive disease that impairs the psychological‚ emotional
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The biological approach can be useful to explain why Afina sometimes damages the school property by behaving in a deviant and antisocial manner. This approach assumes that there is a genetic predisposition which accounts for aggression and there is supporting evidence for this from research studying twins. For example‚ McGuffin and Gottesman (1985) found that 87% of identical twins shared aggression levels compared to only 60% of non-identical twins‚ supporting the basis of genes in the influence
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Alcoholism: Substance Abuse Alexisa Storms HCA / 250 May 25‚ 2014 Professor Womble “Alcoholism and alcohol abuse are among the most common‚ devastating‚ and costly problems in the United States” (Caron 2013). Alcoholism is something that can be hidden or easy to spot. Alcohol can affect your psychology health and physical health. Some people are not even aware that they are either boarder line alcoholics or have become one fully. There are ways to identify the signs
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Alcoholism Alcoholism is a progressive and chronic disease that includes controlling drinking‚ using alcohol even though it causes problems‚ having physical dependence with alcohol‚ or having withdrawal symptoms when one tries to cut back or stop consuming alcohol. One can have a problem with alcohol and not have it progressed to alcoholism. That is called problem drinking which means one drinks too much causing repeated problem in their life. According to the Mayo Clinic (2012)‚ binge drinking
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