Depression is caused by neither nurture or nature alone. Historically, ideas have revolved around nurture, namely the environment, and upbringing of a person, and nature, the genetic makeup of an individual that is reflected in their personality and approach to life. It is possible to argue that nature plays a bigger part in this picture due the fact that almost everyone is faced with traumatic or stressful life events, but not everyone suffers from depression. This essay will evaluate both nurture
p. 2). Mental activity describes acquirement, storing, conversion, and use of the knowledge that take place during the cognition process. Cognition is important to other areas of psychology because people who are experiencing stress or general depression tend to recall memories in a summary way, meaning there is no real detail or extension to the memory. This often happened in the movie, as Will never really went into detail about his childhood outside of the most traumatic experiences that were