Question

Which of the following models proposed that people are born with a genetic predisposition that places them at risk of developing a psychological disorder if exposed to certain extremely taxing life experiences?
a. semantic model
b. polygenic model
c. humanistic model
d. diathesis-stress model

Answer 1

Answer:

D- Diathesis-stress model

Explanation:

Diathesis-stress model proposed that people are born with a genetic predisposition that places them at risk of developing a psychological disorder if exposed to certain extremely taxing life experiences because people may develop mental and physical disorders which develop from a genetic and they are combined with stressful conditions or extreme taxing life experiences that play facilitating role in their life . Example extreme taxing life experiences may be lack of money or hardness when growing up or severe illness, depression etc which might have place them at risk of developing a psychological disorder

because they were exposed to some certain stress caused by life experiences or extremely taxing life experience thereby resulting in mental health disorders

People are born with a genetic predisposition that places them at risk of developing a psychological disorder due to difficult life experiences.