Lecture - PTSD

Question 1

effect of hindsight bias

Answer 1

-self blame
-‘i could have prevented this’
-‘i already thought that something was going to happen’
…

Question 2

PTSD and comorbid disorders

Answer 2

• depressive disorders
• anxiety disorders
• sleep disorders
• substance-related and addictive disorders
• personality disorders

Question 3

soldiers iraq

Answer 3

• assessed after return
• 5 months and 15 months after employment
• showed list of thinks they could have experienced (bombs, seeing someone dying etc)
• > indicate how many they saw/experience
• measurement if they had PTSD or not
• if PTSD: after 15m remembered more than after 5m
• no PTSD remember about same negative experience at 5m and at 15m
• > people infere that if they have symptoms they might have seen horrible things (otherwise i would not experience that much)
• suffering is real, memory may not be

Question 4

alien abduction study

Answer 4

• people can suffer from highly unlikely events
• some people believe they were abducted by aliens
• 6 (of 10) had PTSD
• > before they had previous quasi-hypnotic session to recover all detailed ‘memories’ -> made them even more suffer
• victims scored higher on absorption. magical ideation and association
• had higher physiological reactions to abduction and negative scripts
• also higher rates of self-reported fear, arousal and imagery vividness after abduction tapes than controls

Question 5

prolonged (imaginal) exposure (CBT)

Answer 5

• face violation of expectancy
• example: women thinks she is going to die when going in a car
• > take her in the car
• > she experiences nothing is happening