biological approach ao3

Question 1

irl appliaction of neurotransmitters

Answer 1

understanding them allows 4 dev of drugs 4 mental disorders
influenced treatment of depression w antidepressants by increasing serotonin in synapses
result; ppl can manage symptoms out of hospital and live in society

Question 2

counter to irl application of neurotransmitters

Answer 2

caparini et al 2018 - compared 21 antidepressants and founf variations in the effects - that they dont work the same for everyone
but theyre more effective than placebos so antidep drugs msut be moderatley effective

Question 3

counter to irl application of neurotransmitters challenged bio app how

Answer 3

shows taht assumptions that brain chem alone infulences beh is wrong
must be other environmental aspects that lead to eg depression

Question 4

point strenth for biological - real word app

Answer 4

increased understandinf of neuro chem lesd to irl applications like treating disorder

Question 5

point for weakness for bio app - causation

Answer 5

P - one limitation of the bio app is that causation if often strongly implied in explanations that focus on brain struc

Question 6

evidence for weak bio app causation

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E - eg one explanation of schizophrenia suggests lack of activty in ventral striatum is linked to neg symptoms like avoliton (lack of motivation)

Question 7

explanation for weak bio app causation

Answer 7

issue for biological explanations bc such reseach tells us only that there is an assiciation bet brain struc and beh
cannot tell us that reduced activty in area of brain causes beh or beh that causes lower activity in that part of brain

Question 8

link for weak bio app causation

Answer 8

thus its importsnt to remem that biological explanations often reliant on correlational results which doesnt mean one result causes another

Question 9

point for weakness bio app - biological determisms

Answer 9

bio explanation of beh can be considered determinstic

Question 10

evidence for weakness bio app - biological determisms

Answer 10

eg one assumptom of app is that some human beh is as a result of evolution and that our inherited genses are inherited bc they maximise survial and reprofuction and are thus naturally selected and inherited ffrom ancestors

Question 11

ex for weakness bio app - biological determisms

Answer 11

such evolutionary claims are used to explain variety of gender differences in human beh including agitation and stress
implies humans have little contril over beh and are pre determined to act a certain way regardless of expirences or free will or environment

Question 12

link for weakness bio app - biological determinsi

Answer 12

this is problematic for tjose who dont follow typical beh and overemphasises natures role on beh
this explanation is unfalsifiable - cannot be disproved and thus incapable of scientfic validation

Question 13

strenth for bio app
point
scientiv methfs

Answer 13

scientifc methods of investigation are advantagous in prov app w scientfic credibiliyy

Question 14

evidence and explanarion strenth bio app - irl app

Answer 14

drug therapies have ben dev for many mental illnesses based on reseach into neurotransmitters
eg treatinf drepression using antideppressants that increase serotonin in synapses
allowed ppl to not live in hospitals and withink soceity
can add caparini counter

Question 15

link for strenth of bio app
- irl app

Answer 15

understanfinf annormal neurochem activory has been helpful in dev treatments and provide pateints w explanation of illlness thats not their fault
improved their quality of life

Question 16

evidence for bio app
sceintfifc meth

Answer 16

highly objective meth
eg scanning using mris and ecgs to investiate localisation of function and measure philsiological processes

Question 17

explanatio for bio app
scientifc meth

Answer 17

thus since scienfvi meth used observale ev and objectivr and realiable data given
advancments in tech can measure neural processes in ways taht arent open to bias

Question 18

link for bio app
scineitivic methids

Answer 18

thus gives objective data ab internal phisiological pro that would otherwise be unobservable