Your text identifies four unifying themes that relate to psychology's subject matter. Identify each of these themes and show how each theme might be relevant in investigating clinical depression
What will be an ideal response?
Behavior is determined by multiple causes, is shaped by cultural heritage, is influenced jointly by heredity and environment, and people's experience of the world is highly subjective.
Answers to the remainder of this question will require students to come up with applications of these themes that go beyond the information in the text. Some points that might be covered include the fact that depression involves complex behavior that has multiple causes (multifactorial causation); a discussion of cross-cultural views on depression (cultural heritage); a discussion of the question as to whether depression may be situational or biological; and a discussion as to the subjectivity in defining and describing depression.
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a. Pavlov's classical conditioning b. Thorndike's law of effect c. Bandura's observational theory d. Köhler's insight theory