Chapter 2

Question 1

Approach to the study of psychopathology that holds psychological disorders as always being the products of multiple interacting causal factors.

Answer 1

Multidimensional integrational approach

Question 2

attempts to trace the origins of behavior to a single cause

Answer 2

One-dimensional model

Question 3

Inherited tendency to express trait/behaviors

Answer 3

Diathesis

Question 4

Life events of contextual behaviors

Answer 4

Stress

Question 5

Genes make us want to seek certain feelings, which then may cause us to end up in different environments

Answer 5

Gene-environmental interactions

Question 6

We have become highly prepared for learning about certain types of objects or situations because of evolution

Answer 6

Prepared learning

Question 7

the effects of social interactions, stress, cultural factors, and mental health on the physical development and organization of the brain, impacting areas related to emotion, cognition, and behavior.

Answer 7

Psychosocial influences

Question 8

Dominant feeling state/ NORMAL feeling state

Answer 8

Mood

Question 9

Temporary feeling state that you observe

Answer 9

Affect

Question 10

Pattern of action elicited by an external event and a feeling state, accompanied by a characteristic physiological response.

Answer 10

Emotion

Question 11

Three components of emotion

Answer 11

Behavior, physiology, Cognition

Question 12

A hypothesis that both an inherited tendency (a vulnerability) and specific stressful conditions are required to produce a disorder.

Answer 12

Diathesis-Stress model

Question 13

What study was very important in demonstrating clearly that neither genes nor life experiences (environmental events) can solely explain the onset of a disorder such as depression?

Answer 13

Caspi and Colleagues Diathesis-Stress