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Inquiry: Sociocultural etiologies
The sociocultural approach to disorders focuses on how culture, society, and the environment may play a role in our mental health. Students are not required to know several sociocultural explanations,...
Psychology textbook
Effectiveness of health promotion programs
The goal of health promotion strategies is to enhance good health and prevent illness. WHO (1986) defined health promotion as “the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve their...
Psychology textbook (2025)
Cognitive explanations: Drug abuse
Cognitive psychologists are interested in how we think influences our behavior. In research on addiction and substance abuse, a lot of research focuses on why individuals decide to start using a drug...
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Psychology textbook (2025)
Cognitive explanations of obesity
Human beings are cognitive misers. Baumeister et al. (1998) argue that making decisions uses energy we would rather not use. As human beings, we tend to apply the following mantra to decision-making:...
Psychology textbook (2025)
Biological explanations of obesity
Biologists have identified several hormones that play a key role in eating and the way our body uses energy and stores fat. Although research shows hormones let us know when we are hungry, and when we...
Psychology textbook (2025)
Sociocultural factors: Cognitive development
Sociocultural factors play a significant role in cognitive development. Piaget argued that children learn through self-discovery in their environment. As a result, a child's environment makes a difference. ...
Psychology textbook (2025)
Continuous theories: Cognitive development Free
Continuous theories suggest that development is a gradual, incremental process. There are no clear-cut stages; cognitive development occurs through the continuous accumulation of skills and knowledge...
Psychology textbook (2025)
Stage theories: Cognitive development Free
The field of cognitive development studies how a child develops over time in terms of thinking, problem-solving, language, perception, and information processing. Like many early theorists, Swiss psychologist...
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HRLP 1.1 Origins of prosocial behavior
The following lesson focuses on the origins of prosocial behavior. As part of this topic, students should consider biological, cognitive, and sociocultural explanations of why we engage (or don't engage)...
Psychology textbook (2025)
Biological explanations: addiction
The origins of addiction are quite complex and not fully understood by psychologists. Addiction occurs when people become physically dependent on a substance through repeated use. This chapter will include...