Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Reserpine, Explanatory Style, Twin Study

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

Document Summary

This week: depression and mania, causes of mood disorders, symptoms of schizophrenia. Review: prior to dsm the disincion between a neurosis and a psychosis was based on problems of anxiety vs. thought disturbance. Anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorder person has anxiety on things in paricular, happens all the ime o o. Panic disorder terriied panic at a paricular thing. Phobic disorders irraional fear: obsessive and compulsive disorder and ptsd specialized cases, now considered disorders on their own. The people has disassociated: dissociaive amnesia, dissociaive fugue, disassociate idenity disorder. Individuals lost touch with reality, hearing things that aren"t there: does not involve more than one personality. Eg. psychopath, sociopath process things diferently and don"t see it the same way. Characterized by disturbance in mood (afect) rather than thought. Something about the way they feel is changing them, the mood is changing them. Low depression: unipolar or major depression o o.