PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Explanatory Style, Borderline Personality Disorder, Sexual Orientation

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Christopher Niemic

Document Summary

Physical characteristics: brain wave patterns, blood pressure readings, eyeglass prescriptions, eye-muscle balance, reaction to medicine. Personalities generally unaware of each other: some facts about did. 9x more common in women: result of repeated abuse - victims tend to tune out and divorce themselves from their abusive experience, creating different personalities to which they can escape. Mood disorders: major depressive disorder, characterized by deep sadness and despair, prolonged hopelessness, lethargy (physical and emotional), impairment of daily life function, five warning signs of depression. Intense feelings of worthlessness, guilt, self-blame: diminished pleasure and interest in typical joys, restlessness and agitation, recurring thoughts of suicide and death. In mild forms, benefits to mania include energy, creativity, self-esteem, social benefits, ambition. However, full mania is harmful as highs become too high: easily distracted, inability to sleep, extremely sensitive to stimulation, delusions of grandeur, crashes into depression.