stress diathesis

Question 1

What is it?

Answer 1

A psychological study that helps to explain how stress caused by life events (nurture) can interact with an individual’s genetic vulnerability (nature) to impact on their mental wellbeing

Question 2

What does the study say?

Answer 2

Some individuals can have a genetic predispostion to mental illnesses but theres no certainity that they will develop it

Question 3

What does the study say can trigger the beginning of the mental illness of a person with the genetic predisposition?

Answer 3

Stress

Question 4

Stress diathesis is part of which debate?

Answer 4

Influences on human behaviour (nature vs nurture debate)

Question 5

What is nature?

Answer 5

Genetic inheritance or biological factors

Question 6

What is nurture?

Answer 6

Influence of external factors after conception such as environmental and social factors

Question 7

One criticism is that it represents?

Answer 7

The model represents a simplistic view of how physiological disorders develop

Question 8

Another criticism is?

Answer 8

Might not fully be able to account for why some people develop mental illnesses and others dont

Question 9

The last criticism is?

Answer 9

No one really knows the exact ways that nature and nurture react with each other