PS101 Lecture Notes - Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Somatization Disorder
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Classical conditioning: when you have a natural response to something in the world. Modeling: when you want someone to demonstrate a certain behavior, when we learn behaviors and they become apart of us. Illogical/irrational thought patterns: magnification, all-or-nothing thinking, overgeneralization. Thinking that something that has happened the one time will happen many more times: minimization. Genetics: mz twins more similar than dz twins, even when adopted. Moods or emotions that are extreme and unwarranted. An emotion that occur when they shouldn"t occur. Is not a case of the blues: or having a bad day . Clinical depression occurs when the frequency, intensity, duration of symptoms is out of proportion to situation. Negative cognitions about self, world, an future. Overwhelming sadness, despair, and hopelessness and losing the ability to experience pleasure. In extreme cases depression can: cause a person to have suicidal intentions, can cause the experience to delusions or hallucinations, which are symptoms of psychotic depression.
