PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Aaron T. Beck, Learned Helplessness, Psychosis

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Benjamin Cheung, Simon Lolliot

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Drugs that increase levels of norepinephrine and serotonin in the brain can reduce depression. Perhaps due to lack of these neurotransmitters in the brain. Evidence is still mixed time lag between increased nts and symptom relief. Gene x environment interaction would also contribute. *read carefully the figures and graphs in the textbook. Father of cognitive therapy and the cognitive model of depression. Distorted cognitions and dysfunctional attitudes that maintain negative mood states. Biases in how information is attended to, processed, and remembered leads to and maintains depression. All or nothing thinking (also known as black and white thinking) Gods who were restrained so they couldn"t escape made no attempt to escape once they were unrestrained. Individuals who are prone to depression automatically attribute negative experiences to cases that are: Genetic vulnerability + negative early life events = negative schema: biased interpretation of information, biased attention, biased memory.