PSY 3100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Hypervigilance

• School: Vanderbilt University
• Department: Psychology (A&S)
• Course: PSY 3100
• Professor: Olatunji Olubunmi(bunmi)

Document Summary

Predisposing factors: genetics, social modeling, saving tendencies. Precipitating factors: loss emotional stressors, learned experiences. Neural mechanisms of decision making in hoarding disorder. Information processing deficits: possession beliefs, behavioral avoidance, emotional attachment. Throw away: keep and organize, recycle or donate, sell. Intrusion symptoms: exposure to a traumatic event, avoidance, negative alterations in cognitions and mood (new requirement, alterations in arousal and reactivity, duration of symptoms greater than or equal to 1 month, clinically significant distress/impairment. Intrusion symptoms: distressing recollections of the trauma, reliving the experience (flashbacks, distressing dreams of the event. 1: psychological distress at exposure to trauma reminders (internal or external, physiological reactivity to trauma reminders, avoidance, efforts to avoid trauma-related thoughts or feelings, efforts to avoid trauma-related activities or situations, cognition and mood. Increased arousal: sleep disturbances, difficulty concentrating, hypervigilance, exaggerated startle response. Irritability or outburst of anger: durations of the disturbance is more than 1 month, disturbance causes significant distress or impairment in important areas of functioning.