PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Major Depressive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Hypomania
4 Dec 2020
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A child"s need for a secure attachment to parental figures in order to be resistant to depression (and anxiety) in later life. Behavioural theories propose that people become depressed either when their responses no longer produce positive reinforcement or when their rate of negative reinforcements increases (such as experiencing stressful life events) Nondepressed people show a large positively bias attributions that may serve as a protective factor against depression. A positively bias is a tendency to process emotional information in an overtly optimistic, self-enhancing manner. People undergoing stressful life events over which they have little or no control may develop a syndrome like the helplessness syndrome seen in animals. A depressogenic or pessimistic attribution for a negative event is an internal, stable, and global one. He proposed people who have a relatively stable and pessimistic attributional style have a vulnerability for depression which seems to develop in part through social learning.
