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    • Biological Approach: Evaluation Points
      • Real world application
      • Scientific methods
      • Biological determinism
    • Biological Approach: Real World Application
      RWA to mental health treatments. Neurochemical processes are associated with psychoactive drugs to treat disorders, such as depression with anti-depressants which increase serotonin at synapses. However, anti-depressants and other psychoactive drugs don't work for everyone. Ciprani compared 21 anti-depressants and found wide differences. This suggests that brain chemistry alone doesnt influence depression.
    • Biological Approach: Scientific Methods
      The biological approach is unbiased and reliable as it uses technology and scanning techniques such as fMRI. These can be tested and provided objective data.
    • Biological Approach: Biological Determinism
      Human behaviour is determined by uncontrolled genetic and internal cause, but phenotype is affected by environment. Even though identical twins are concordant and have 100% of the same genes, they are different. The biological approach doesn't explain criminal behaviour.
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