PSYC 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Major Depressive Episode, Hypomania, Cyclothymia
22 Oct 2016
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5 year mood timeline - what a person"s mood might be like over a 5-year period. All examples start off at a stage called euthymia - baseline mood or normal mood state. Mood changes as you go along timeline indicative of the first episode of depression or mania, or hypomania. Examples: not a severely depressed mood. Natural selection: traits which help an organism survive and reproduce will become more common in a population. Is triggered by difficult problems that are related to important goals e. g. a romantic relationship, especially in adolescents and adults. Co-ordinates changes in body systems that promote sustained analysis of the problem. Helps people generate/evaluate potential solutions for the problem. Facilitates attention to the triggering problem by managing engagement in other goal-related behaviour. Some researchers say rumination is actually helpful in terms of trying to generate different solutions for a problem.
