PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Classical Conditioning, Reuptake, Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Paula Barata

Document Summary

Mood disorders - extremes in mood that disrupt normal life experiences: major depressive disorder, bipolar disorder. Depression: frequency, intensity, and duration of the symptoms is out of proportion to the situation. Four components of depression: *emotional symptoms. Negative cognitions about self, world, and future: motivational symptoms. Bipolar disorder: depression alternates with periods of mania, manic state: Cognitive therapies: role of irrational and self-defeating thought patterns, help clients discover and change cognitions that underlie problems, the way you interpret a situation affects your emotions and behaviours. Cognitive therapy for depression (aaron beck: sort out ideas (cognitions) that underlie maladaptive emotional response (depression, formulates ways of testing the cognitions (gently) I didn"t get into vet school, therefore, i"m worthless. So everyone who doesn"t get into vet school is worthless: goal is to reprogram automatic thought patterns so they are not self- defeating and self-fulfilling.