PSY100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Posttraumatic Growth, Neurology, Explanatory Style
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Addiction is an overreward of the dopaminergic system, resulting in down regulation resulting in more dosages to meet the demands. When rats lived in a population with eachother with other rats, they would stimulate themselves at first then live their normal lives. Caged rats would constantly stimulate themselves and get addicted. What we often position within the i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual, is(cid:374)(cid:859)t al(cid:449)ays part of the(cid:373). It (cid:373)a(cid:374)ifests (cid:449)ithi(cid:374) the(cid:373), (cid:271)ut its (cid:374)ot the (cid:449)hole story. The (cid:449)hole story is how all these internal processes are connected. Insight and understanding, empathy, accepting and trusting relationship with therapist. The effectiveness of different types of treatments did differ across the techniques, but the relationship between the therapist and the patient was the biggest factor in determining how successful the therapy is. Expressing ones thoughts and eelings; eg pennebakers work on writing about personal trauma. Pennebaker did work with autobiographies, where subjects wrote traumatic experiences in a diary.
