PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Basal Ganglia, Dopamine Hypothesis Of Schizophrenia
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Mz twins more similar than dz twins, even when adopted. Mood or emotions that are extreme and unwarranted. Is not a case of the blues" or having a bad day". Clinical depression occurs when the frequency, intensity, duration of symptoms is out of proportion to situation causes & impacts: emotional symptoms-sadness, hopelessness cognitive symptoms-self, world, future motivational symptoms-loss of interest somatic symptoms-loss of energy, appetite. Can cause the experience of delusions or hallucinations, which are symptoms of psychotic depression (delusions, really different world) World, oneself, future cannot suppress negative thoughts recall more failures vs successes. Depressive attributional pattern success = factors outside self negative outcomes = personal factors plays role in learned helplessness. Depression occurs when people expect that bad events will occur and they think that they cant cope with them learning & environmental factors. Loss of reinforcement causes loss of social support deeper depression.
