Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sertraline, Reinforcement, Reuptake

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Psychology 2030a chapter 4 lecture 4. Etiology of anxiety, ocd, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders. Freud: conflict between id ( childish wants) and ego ( adult ways of thinking, from sexual and aggressive impulses that overwhelm defense mechanisms, especially repression and displacement. Behavioural theories: anxiety = learned behaviour, classically or operantly conditioned through negative reinforcement. E. g. compulsive eater eats when they feel sad, eating makes their emotions go away and negatively reinforces their disorder: vicarious learning theory. Behaviours are learned through watching others model it. E. g. when parents tell children to look both ways before crossing the street. Information is processed differently inaccurate interpretations of internal or external events. This leads to development of anxiety: maladaptive thoughts faulty beliefs, fear of fear model. One becomes hypersensitive to bodily sensations after having panic attach. Treatment of anxiety, ocd, and trauma- and stressor-related disorders. Medication: selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (ssris) for depletion of serotonin in synapses.