Individuals may be vulnerable to OCD through genetics and triggered by environmental stressors.
What is a weakness of the genetic explanation?
Close relatives of those with OCD could have imitated the behaviour (SLT).
What is a weakness of the genetic explanation?
Cromer (2007) found over half of the OCD patients in their sample had a traumatic event in the past, and that OCD was more severe in those with more than one trauma. This is a weakness as it suggests genes are not the only explanation.
