Personally, I have not been affected by a person that has suffered from a psychological problem, and I am truly forever grateful for this. After learning a lot in this class, I have caught myself wondering if I have been touched by someone with a certain disorder, and I just don’t know it. I say this because some of these disorders are very silent and can take years to come out. I thought a little bit about a few movies I have watched lately, and settled on one certain actress. For the purpose of this assignment, she will go by Jenny. Jenny grew up in a normal home. She lived with her Mother (Pat), Father (Dave), brother Joshua, and sister Jess. From what I observed from watching the movie, their family seemed very normal. Both the mother
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Our brains are made up of over 100 billion nerve cells that are called neurons. Large groups of these make up the brain regions and each region has its distinctive duties. Where does the abnormal behavior come from though? Researchers have learned that these disordes can be linked to the problem in the transmission of messages from neuron to neuron. Somewhere, somehow, a message is not getting across clearly. Not to mention, we also have hormones that are constantly going through every part of our bodies, and at different times, the amount of hormones can go up or down, instigating something (Comer, …show more content…
Theorists of this model believe that our actions are determined by the experiences we are having in life (Comer, 2014). Jenny had so many crazy things going on in her life when she was attempting suicide. Her parents had recently divorced, in result her father disappeared and she lost her two best friends after being bulled online and in school. All very hard things to experience in lfe. Although this is most associated with her condition, it also states that sometimes these behaviors are learned. Although the movie did not show too much about the family, it showed the doctor asking the mother if there was any history of this type of thing, and the answer was no. With that, I am not sure this was a learned behavior on Jenny’s
Our brains are made up of over 100 billion nerve cells that are called neurons. Large groups of these make up the brain regions and each region has its distinctive duties. Where does the abnormal behavior come from though? Researchers have learned that these disordes can be linked to the problem in the transmission of messages from neuron to neuron. Somewhere, somehow, a message is not getting across clearly. Not to mention, we also have hormones that are constantly going through every part of our bodies, and at different times, the amount of hormones can go up or down, instigating something (Comer, …show more content…
Theorists of this model believe that our actions are determined by the experiences we are having in life (Comer, 2014). Jenny had so many crazy things going on in her life when she was attempting suicide. Her parents had recently divorced, in result her father disappeared and she lost her two best friends after being bulled online and in school. All very hard things to experience in lfe. Although this is most associated with her condition, it also states that sometimes these behaviors are learned. Although the movie did not show too much about the family, it showed the doctor asking the mother if there was any history of this type of thing, and the answer was no. With that, I am not sure this was a learned behavior on Jenny’s