Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Hikikomori, Taijin Kyofusho, Classical Conditioning

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mike Atkinson

Document Summary

Judgement of abnormality: distressing to self others, deviant: violates social norms, dysfunctional for person or society. Inappropriate use of defense mechanisms: behavioural, learned responses, cognitive, maladaptive thought processes, humanistic, frustrations of achieving self-actualization; negative self-concept. Psychological disorders: anxiety disorders, mood (affective) disorders - ex. Somatoform disorders - disorders related to the body (ex. Losing sight due to emotional trauma: dissociative disorders - ex. Dissociative identity disorder, split in mind and consciousness: personality disorders. Feelings of tension: apprehension, cognitive symptoms, worry, thoughts about inability to cope, physiological symptoms. Increased heart rate: muscle tension, other autonomic arousal symptoms, behavioural symptoms, avoidance of feared situations, decreased task performance. Increased startled response: examples, phobic disorder: strong, irrational fears of objects or situations, generalized anxiety disorder: state of diffuse, free-floating anxiety, panic disorder: sudden, unpredictable, intense; person may feel they are dying, obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd, obsessive thoughts. Fear of contamination: preoccupations with numbers or patterns, worries about harming others, compulsive behaviours, checking, cleaning, organizing.