PSYC 1103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Learned Helplessness, Prefrontal Cortex, Agoraphobia

• School: UConn
• Department: Psychological Sciences
• Course: PSYC 1103
• Professor: James Dixon

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Psyc 1103 - lecture 18 - psychological disorders. Axis iii: medical conditions that might impact mental health. Axis v: rating of current level of functioning: 1 to 100. Phobia: intense, irrational fear of an object or situation. Agoraphobia: fear of being away from safe place, person. Generalized anxiety disorder: excessive anxiety not triggered by specific object or situation. Less severe symptoms, but last at least 2 years. Group 1: dogs harnessed then released (control) Group 2: dogs harnessed, learn to press lever to end mild. Group 3: dogs harnessed, yoked to group 2. When tested in shuttle box, group 3 dogs don"t jump the wall to escape. Unstable emotional condition characterized by cycles of mania and depression. Mania must last at least 1 week. People subject to depression attribute negative experiences to internal. Virginia woolf, abraham lincoln, ernest hemingway, winston.