PS101 Lecture Notes - Mood Disorder, Dysthymia, Classical Conditioning

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Finished Types of Anxiety Disorders in Nov 15 Notes

What Causes Anxiety Disorders?

● Psychodynamic Explanations

○ Repressed urges threaten to surface

● Cognitive Behavioural Learning Explanations

○ Classical conditioning then operant conditioning

○ Modeling

● Cognitive Explanations

○ Illogical/Irrational thought patterns

■ Magnification → don’t acknowledge positive things, think negative things

are worse than they are

■ All or nothing thinking

■ Overgeneralization

■ Minimization

● Biological Explanations

○ Genetics

■ MZ twins more similar than DZ twins, even when adopted

○ Neurochemical Contributions

■ Neurotransmitters (e.g. GABA - inhibitory/Serotonin)

Moods

● Mood (Affective) Disorders

○ Moods or emotions that are extreme and unwarranted (does not match reality)

○ From extreme depression to extreme elation

○ Two broad categories: depressive, bipolar

● Depressive Disorders

○ Depression is not a “case of the blues” or “having a bad day”

○ Clinical depression occurs when frequency, intensity, duration of symptoms is out

of proportion to situation

● Depression - Causes and Impacts on Daily Living

○ Emotional symptoms: sadness, hopelessness, anxiety, misery, inability to enjoy

○ Cognitive symptoms: negative cognitions about self, world, and future

○ Somatic symptoms: loss of appetite, lack of energy, sleep difficulties, weight

loss/gain

○ Motivational symptoms: loss of interest, lack of drive, difficulty starting anything

● Depression

○ Dysthymia:

■ “Bad spirit”

■ A milder form of clinical depression

■ Chronic (lasts for years)

■ No clear reason

■ Eeyore example

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Finished types of anxiety disorders in nov 15 notes. Magnification don"t acknowledge positive things, think negative things are worse than they are. Mz twins more similar than dz twins, even when adopted. Moods or emotions that are extreme and unwarranted (does not match reality) Depression is not a case of the blues or having a bad day . Clinical depression occurs when frequency, intensity, duration of symptoms is out of proportion to situation. Depression - causes and impacts on daily living. Emotional symptoms: sadness, hopelessness, anxiety, misery, inability to enjoy. Cognitive symptoms: negative cognitions about self, world, and future. Somatic symptoms: loss of appetite, lack of energy, sleep difficulties, weight loss/gain. Motivational symptoms: loss of interest, lack of drive, difficulty starting anything. Cause a person to have suicidal intentions. Can cause the experience of delusions or hallucinations, which are symptoms of psychotic depression. Negative thoughts concerning: the world, oneself, the future.

PS101 Lecture Notes - Mood Disorder, Dysthymia, Classical Conditioning

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