PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Fugue State, Twin Study, Psychogenic Amnesia
28 Feb 2017
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Obsessive images-image what it look like, baby in bathroom. Compulsions: intrusive, inappropriate actions that often prevent obsessions. I want to do that, then i feel good. Ocd patients show excessive functioning in the frontal lobes & the limbic system. Ocd patients show serotonin imbalance- can be treat it with medication. Two-thirds of obsessive-compulsive patients improved after 10 years. 80% improved within 40 years very few were symptom-free. A traumatic even or catastrophe followed by difficulties in concentration and memory, inability to relax. More severe when cause by humans . Psychodynamic - underlying psychological conflicts or dears (cid:862)(cid:271)ursti(cid:374)g(cid:863) i(cid:374)to (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess. Freud- horse trample him, so he fears that hose would trample him. Ocd temporarily reduced stress- reinforcing. women teeth and glass cup. Cognitive: perceptual processes distort estimation of danger. Evolution-our anterior are worry a lot in order to survive, if not worry-died. Conversion: physical symptoms, such as paralyses, with no physical explanation.
