Class 17

Question 1

Information Processing Bias

Answer 1

make hostile attributions to neutral things, perceive a wide variety of emotions as anger, pay so much attention to threat cues that they ignore safety cues

Question 2

Impaired Emotional Learning

Answer 2

Have difficulty unpairing CS from US (aka extinction), generalize their fear cues

Question 3

Higher Emotional Reactivity

Answer 3

Increase in intensity of emotions
- amygdala involved here

Question 4

Emotional Regulation Difficulties

Answer 4

More emotional dysregulation:
- hard time identifying emotions
- regulating how intense emotions are, how long lasting
- trouble adaptively managing emotional reactions in order to do the things you need to
Rely on more maladaptive coping strategies - rebound effect

Question 5

Rebound effect =

Answer 5

trying to push feelings down only to have them then come back stronger than ever

Question 6

Resilience

Answer 6

The ability to adapt well to adversity, trauma, tragedy, threats, or sources of stress
- not necessarily doing great in all aspects, but maybe one or two aspects

Question 7

Trauma is a non-specific risk factor for psychopathology in children. What is another way to say that?

Answer 7

Trauma is a transdiagnostic risk factor