PSYS 170 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Mood Disorder, Etiology, Introjection

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Psychological Science
• Course: PSYS 170
• Professor: Kelly Joanna Rohan

Document Summary

Etiology: psychoanalytic theory: depression, greif over loss object. Introjection (internalized object: anger inward, bipolar disorders, superego in charge depression, ego in charge mania, shifting ego/superego dominance, lacks research support. Etiology: cognitive theory: diathesis-stress model, diathesis cognitive vulnerability, stress life events. Cognitive distortions: all-or-nothing: categorical, magnification: catastrophizing seeing things worse than they are, mental filter: dwell on a negative detail, overgeneralization: a negative event is likely to happen again & again, personalization: self-blame. Learned hopelessness theory: people with depression are passive because they have been unable to control past traumatic events. Hopelessness theory: hopelessness: the expectation that desirable outcomes won"t occur or aversive outcomes will occur and nothing can change this, negative influences about events, stable, global causes, negative consequences, negative self-characteristics, these correlate with depression. Response styles theory: rumination: direct attention inward on negative feelings & their causes/consequences, distraction: direct attention away from negative feelings and onto pleasant/neutral activates, nolen-hoeksema created this theory, proposed to explain gender differences.