PSY 111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Major Depressive Disorder, Aaron T. Beck, Seasonal Affective Disorder

• School: Miami University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 111
• Professor: Ms.Mahya Rahimian Mashhadi

Document Summary

Psy 111 chapter 8 part 1: psychological disorders. Increased activity in amygdala, reduced activity in areas of prefrontal cortex responsible for cognitive control. Negative thoughts contribute to depression: aaron beck (1967) noted dysfunctional thought patterns in depressed individuals, depressed individuals tend to have depressive biases in: Interpretation of information (neutral = negative: attention (trouble disengaging from negative info, memory (better recall of negative information) Individuals who are prone to depression automatically attribute negative experiences to cause that are internal, stable, and global. Other prominent symptoms include grandiosity, decreased need for sleep, talkativeness. The role of stress in bipolar disorder: stressful life experiences often precede manic and depressive episodes, severely stressed individuals also take longer to recover from an episode than individuals not affected by stress. Because: there is controversy over whether having a problematic personality is really a disorder, personality problems might be better understood as extreme values on trait dimensions such as the big five traits than disorders .