Question

A new, integrative model that proposes that physiological and genetic, cognitive and emotional, and environmental factors all affect and are affected by one another is called the _______.

Answer 1

Answer:

The correct answer is biopsychosocial model.

Explanation:

An interdisciplinary model that provides an interrelation between the psychological, biological and socio-environmental elements is known as the biopsychosocial model. The model illustrates the facts that how the association between the mentioned factors plays an essential function in the fields of health and development of humans.  

The model was postulated by George Engel in 1977 and is the first of its type to illustrate this kind of multidisciplinary thinking. However, the model has been rejected by many, but still, it has an influence in the fields of health, medicine, psychology, and the development of human beings.