PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Intrusive Thought, Heritability

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Allison Jane Ouimet

Document Summary

But its extremely rare people have only 1. Recurrent or persistent thoughts, urges or images that are experienced as intrusive and unwanted. Attempts to ignore or suppress such thoughts urges or neutralize them with some other thought or action. Eg. checking is the compulsion but the doubt that something is not locked is the obsession and if not locked than bad things can happen. So you need the thoughts of thinking something bad will happen. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts that the individual feels driven to perform in response to an obsession or according to rules that must be applied rigidly. Rules or routines - like showering etc, need start by washing the right side then left, etc. if they make a mistake then they have to start from the beginning. Happen because you have the intrusive thought or obsession and need to alleviate. Aimed at preventing/reducing anxiety/ distress or preventing a dreaded event.