PSY342H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Telepathy, System On A Chip, Guided Imagery
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Chronic depression: depr =common, cognitive cause, yet treated w meds today, contemporary acknowledgement that depr & many other disorders are an interaction of biology, envt, and disposition (personality) Prob related to personality (stable trait: some ppl predisposed to feeling sad, component of personality associated w depr, developmental envt important, formed a schema because you have been exposed to an envt from an early age that says there"s something wrong w you, correlation btwn dysthymia & other common childhood disorders. In dysthymia, the early bond is dysfunctional, ( : dysfunctional schema forms, (cid:224) chronic depr, reactive attachment disorder: failure to bond w caregiver, (cid:224) significant predictor of psychological disorder, (cid:224) antisocial personality disorder. Low self esteem, beliefs of inadequacy, inferiority, self blame: cognitive component, one of most significant cognitive components = low iq, mentally retarded range, often below 70: below normal, impaired range, this is reversible, depr causes low iq.
