PSYC 2490 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Suicidal Ideation, Caudate Nucleus, Heritability

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2490
• Professor: Janine M.Montgomery

Document Summary

Appearance to other people, asking others for reassurance, using strategies to change their appearance/camouflage o 1/5 endure plastic surgery o 1/3 have suicidal ideation, 20% have attempted suicide o. Avoid contact with others o begins in adolescence o social/cultural factors play a role in how people decide whether they are attractive o women are more likely than men to report appearance dissatisfaction o. Ocd related to deficit in the intuitive sense of feeling security and closure. Yedasentience = subjective feeling of knowing that you have thought enough, cleaned enough, or in other ways done what you should to prevent chaos and danger from low-level threats in the environment ***biological deficit for ocd.