PSY342H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Cognita, Operant Conditioning, Anhedonia
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Anhedonia : extreme lack of ability to experience pleasure, sadness, anhedonia one of key symptoms of depression, most usefully treated w cognitive therapy, not exclusive to depression, cognition and affect involve dif brain areas but affect each, emotions regulate our cognitive thoughts! other. Anhedonia is very difficult to treat: called a challenging problem in psych, one of the simplest ways we learn is thru reward, reward in this class is an a, we use a reward system instead of pass/fail, shows how hard you worked, how much info you absorbed, how knowledgeable you are on this info. Psychotic disorders: i don"t really care , all they care about is more of the substance, flat affect, inability to experience pleasure, and sometimes pain, depression, inability to experience pleasure, and sometimes pain, not entirely sure what the physiological mechanism is, likely has to do w dopamine, inability to experience pleasure.
