PSYC*3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Implicit Cognition, Bipolar Disorder, Learned Helplessness
Document Summary
Cognitive science gives new perspective on how behaviour and cognitive influences affect learning and adaption. Behaviour and cognitive influences contribute to pd"s and can change brain function, structure and genetic expression. Classical and operant conditioning facilitate learning relationships among events: we make judgements based on the rlst and our responses are protective/beneficial to us if not hurtful. Conditions you have no control over so give up attempt to cope. Positive psychology: instilling positive attitudes and happiness. Evolutionary significance for survival passed down by ancestors. Emotion disruption/dysregulation interferes with behaviour possibly resulting in: panic, mania, bipolar disorder, depression. Emotions have direct and dramatic impact on functioning. Mood, a persistent period of emotionality is seen in pd"s. Social and interpersonal influences affect both pd"s and biology. Cultural role expectations of men and women. Gender differences exist in rates of mood disorders. Males more likely to self-medicate while women respond better to treatments: emotional processing. Pressures on women to be thin (reverse anorexia)
