Diathesis Stress Model: A Psychological Analysis
Limitations Although the biological perspective has accumulated a lot of information about behavior, there are a number of concepts that it cannot yet fully explain (Hecht, 2013). The main concepts are memory, stress, learning, and emotions. All of these aspects need input from other approaches to provide a more complex explanation (Hecht, 2013). Most biological explanations are reductionist and don’t provide enough information to fully explain human behavior. Individuals may be predisposed to certain behaviors, but these behaviors may not be displayed unless they are triggered by factors in the environment. This is known as the ‘Diathesis Stress Model’ of human behavior (Hecht, 2013). Also, this perspective is too deterministic when