PSYC 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dysthymia, Agoraphobia, Panic Attack

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 100
• Professor: Ryan Curtis

Document Summary

Bipolar i is more serious than bipolar ii: causes serious impairments in life functions. Iceberg : top of iceberg is what you think and feel, bottom of iceberg is what is in your subconscious talk about your past and how they are affecting your behavior now. Freud believed subconscious fears, desires, scarring (things you don"t remember because they are subconscious) Psychologists: talk instead of prescribing drugs because don"t have the degree to do that. Commonly-prescribed ssris for depression: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor, prozac, zoloft, lexapro, paxi. Thought: what affects how we act and feel. Behavior: what we do affects how we think and feel. Emotion: what we feel affects what we think and do. Emotional reasoning: is it reasonable to feel these emotions. Thinking errors: mind reading: thinking everyone hates me, personalization: everything related to you as a person, dichotomous thinking: thinking everything is all good or all bad, selective abstraction.