PSY 30312 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Mental Model, Reinforcement
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Risk factors for suicide: many risk factors: Family factors abuse, low parental monitoring, poor communication, family disruption, high turmoil. Stress loss of job or breakup. Contagion imitation of suicide after multiple news reports have focused on it. Depression, hopelessness, impulsivity: ** when kids are having ideation, often not caught by families ** Theories of depression: psychodynamic: conversion of the aggressive instinct. Results from the loss of a love object without adequate guilt. Not much support no longer looked at as a relevant theory for depression: attachment: insecure attachments place children at risk for later depression, behavioral: lack of positive reinforcers and reward availability in environments. Become depressed because we lack positive reinforcement for what we have done seen particularly in people who have high anhedonia: cognitive: Depressogenic cognitions: negative perceptual and attributional styles associated with depressive symptoms. Hopelessness theory: proposes that depression-prone individuals tend to make internal, stable, and global attributions to explain the causes of negative events.
