PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Reuptake, Prefrontal Cortex, Avoidance Coping

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Joelle Le Moult

Document Summary

Repetitive activities about personal appearance (mirror check etc: hoarding disorder- 2 components. Acquisition of an excessive number of objects- logically don"t need but subjectively cant live without. Exercise- told to write down the name of a loved one, and told they were going to die tomorrow, that feeling mimics ocd. Interfere with normal activities (pop into mind at various time of the day) Common in mothers after giving birth- what if i hurt my baby over and over. Impulse to repeat certain behaviours or mental acts to avoid distress (urge to do something. Magically thinking (touch something makes something happen or not happen ie, close door certain number of times, hand washing, cleaning, counting, touching checking) Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders: obsessive- compulsive disorder (ocd) Repetitive behaviours and mental acts (compulsions: body dysmorphic disorder (bdd) Gets in the way of facing distress and over coming ocd.