PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Bipolar Disorder, Schizoaffective Disorder, Alberta Hospital Edmonton

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AP3
• Professor: Geoffrey Hall

Document Summary

Unrealistically negative views of three things: of the self, of the world o of the future. Systematic errors in logic: o arbitrary inference: drawing negative conclusions with no evidence o selective abstraction, focusing on negative, magnification and minimization o overgeneralization, do poorly at one thing, can"t do anything. Bullied at age 8 at school, first heard voices at age 10. First time she heard a voice was to kill her brother lomoar cpsd| 2151316. Started with abraham in 1910/11 with the theory of depression, freud agreed and now we view it as freud"s theory. Anger at lost object turned toward self. Depression becomes reaction to any lost love object. Individual way of explaining why they are not exceeding. Has negative attributions for failure: internal reasons: something about me , global reasons: something very big and important about me, and i can"t do anything about it , stable reasons: something unchanging about me .