PSY 1102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15.3 to 15.6: Retrovirus, Twin, Explanatory Style

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 1102
• Professor: Kenneth Campbell

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Chapter 15. 3 - mood disorder: explaining mood disorder. D. 2: social cognitive perspective: environmental factors depression is disorder of thinking if depressed, it"s because of how you assess and evaluate your life characteristics - cognitive triad: think negatively about themselves / world / future, pessimistic explanatory style. = blame themselves for negative events, believe that such events will continue inde nitely, and let such events affect many aspects of their lives. Pessimistic, overgeneralized, self-blaming attributions may create a depressing sense of hopelessness: vicious cycle of depression, reciprocal determinism between stressful experience, negative explanatory style, depressed mood and cognitive/behavioural changes. D. 1: genetic factors: proof if no one in family has it, chance is 1/100, but if there is then up to 1/10 identical twin studies. If the affected sibling is an identical twin, the odds increase to nearly 5/10 - which remain the same even when the twins are raised apart.