Evaluating The Biological Approach To Explaining OCD

Question 1

Tourette’s syndrome and other disorders:

Pauls and Leckman (1986)

Answer 1

found that OCD is one form of an expression of the same gene that determines Tourette’s showing that the genes this approach suggests, cross over and so don’t determine JUST OCD

Question 2

Real-world application

Answer 2

such research has meant that parents to be can screen their fertilised eggs and thus have the choice of whether to abort the eggs with the gene using gene therapy to switch genes on and off

Question 3

Alternative explanations:

Answer 3

the two probes model can be applied to OCD where a NS (dirt) is associated with anxiety and then the association is maintained because the stimulus is avoided