Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Depersonalization, Confabulation, Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

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

Document Summary

Facts and statistics: about 7. 8% of the general population meet the criteria for ptsd, combat and sexual assault are the most common traumas, few in air-raid bunkers developed prsd- few experienced death, etc. Posttraumatic stress disorder (ptsd): causes and associated features. Researchers are suggesting that depression way actually be ptsd: biological & psychological predispositions, personalities, and genetics affect ptsd, crf activation (endocrine), hippocampus damage (memory), brain stem (emotional) Hierarchy: table 5. 10 fear and avoidance hierarchy for marcie. Obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd): causes and associated features. Facts and statistics: about 2. 6% of the general population meet criteria for ocd in their lifetime, most people with ocd are female, ocd tends to be chronic, onset is typically in early adolescence or young adulthood. Causes of ocd: parallel to the other anxiety disorders, early life experiences and learning that some thoughts are dangerous/unacceptable, thought-action fusion-tendency to view the thought as similar to the action.