PSY 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Passive Smoking, Neurogenesis, Conscientiousness

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 209
• Professor: Anne Fontana

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Blaming oneself is a common response to stressful difficulties. A type of catastrophic thinking according to albert ellis: aaron beck argues that negative self talk can contribute to development of depression and other disorders. Behavior that is intended to hurt someone, verbally or physically: frustration-aggression hypothesis aggression is lways caused by frustration (not always true, displacement taking emotions out on not the people or situation they are about. The release of emotional tension (described by freud) Studies have found that venting generally causes more anger and iv. Stress sometimes leads to a decreased impulse control or self-indulgence. = eating drinking, etc. in unwise patterns v. the internet and inability to control online use. Consists of spending an inordinate amount of time on: feeling depressed, anxious or empty when not online and so excessive it beings to interfere with their life and they start to hide it . 1. 5% to 8. 2% of the population have this.