PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Habit Reversal Training, Psychosexual Development, Cognitive Therapy
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Clinical description: have obsessions and compulsions: obsessions. Intrusive and nonsensical and not logical (irrational); unpleasant (you don"t like them) Attempts to resist or eliminate: compulsions--have a function to neutralize the obsession. Function to neutralize or suppress the discomfort or distress that comes from the obsessions. Decreases distress at a cost--> causes impairments in functioning. Works through operant learning, negative reinforcement = behavior increases in probability because reduces an aversive (short term gain for long term pain which causes impairment in function) Mower"s two factor model explains ocd: the obsessions and compulsions are: classically conditioned and 2) operantly maintained. 60% have multiple obsessions: need for symmetry, forbidden thoughts or actions, cleaning and contamination, hording. Statistics: 1. 6% to 2. 3% (life); 1% (year, female = male, chronic, onset = childhood to 30s medial 19. Thought-action fusion = a general style of thinking where your thoughts are fused with what you think causes actions; a vulnerability to ocd.
