PS101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Etiology, Avolition, Alogia
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3 classes: social phobia fear of interacting with others, avoid social situations, agoraphobia fear of open place or being in a situation form which escape is difficult or impossible, specific phobia fear of a specific thing, obsessive compulsive disorder. Biological factors: genetic factors, 67% concordance rate for identical twins, 15% for fraternal twins, genetic predisposition, neurotransmitters, under activity, norepinephrine, dopamine, serotonin. Psychological factors: personality based vulnerability, psychodynamic view, early traumatic losses/rejections create vulnerability, humanistic factors, define self worth in terms of individual attainment, react more strongly to failures; due to inadequacies, experience of meaninglessness. Cognitive processes: depressive cognitive triad, negative thoughts concerning: the world, oneself, the future, cannot suppress negative thoughts, recall more failures vs. successes, depressive attributional pattern, success = factors outside self, negative outcomes = personal factors, plays role in learned helplessness, learned helplessness theory, depression occurs when people expect that bad events will occur and they think that they can"t cope with them.
