Prepare at least a 150-200-word response to the following prior to your weekly class meeting: How can the biological and social-cognitive perspectives help us to understand depression? What is the major difference between these perspectives?

Biological and Social-Cognitive Perspective in Understanding Depression. Student’s Name: Course: Professor’s Name: University: City: Due Date: Biological and Social-Cognitive Perspective in Understanding Depression Cognitive perspective account that people’s emotions and behavior are as a result of cognitive abnormality. The cognitive changes are prior indicators towards the onset of depression. According to Becky (1967) depression is caused by negative thoughts, negative self-schemas and wrong information. Helpless and worthless thinking about oneself interfere with normal cognitive processing resulting in impairment perception, memory and problem solving making people overwhelmed with negative thoughts. According to Seligman (1974) depression is caused by learned helplessness, when people learns that their effort to avoid negative situation makes no difference making them develop passiveness and endurance to aversive environment even when escape is possible. According to Maslow (1962) depression is caused when anything block people from achieving self-actualization need. Biological explanations suggests that genetics and the role of neurotransmitters in the brain are core causes of depression. Genes can make right or wrong proteins which may alter biological processes leading to unstable moods. On the other hand, neurotransmitters produce