Week 4 Lectures Flashcards
_____ is based on the premise that emotional disorders involve systematic biases, distortions, and/or deficits in thinking that cause people to have exaggerated maladaptive reactions to manageable situations
cognitive model
collaborative empiricism
cbt is directive and active, psychoeducational, and collaborative between pt and doctor
T/F CBT involves focus on unconscious vs. conscious thought processes.
F –> more conscious
schemas
unwritten rules by which individuals live their lives and adapt (e.g. unloveability, abandonment, mistrust, incompetence, dependence, entitlement)
T/F CBT focuses on present and future more than the past
T
rational responding
automatic thought records and open-ended questioning
basic premise of psychodynamic therapy
people act the way they do for a reason, though often are not fully aware of these motivations
assumption in psychodynamic therpay
patterns develop because of mind’s desire to replay old pain as an attempt to master it –> repetition compulsion
Unorganized instinctual drives
id
contact with reality, perception
ego
moral compass, thoughts and feelings vs values and ideals
super ego
individual deals with internal conflict by falsely attributing his/her own unacknowledged feelings, impulses, thoughts onto others
projection
individual has intolerable feelings of powerfulness, unimportance, etc and compensate by attributing exaggerated positive qualities to others
idealization
individual deals with disturbing feeligns by describing a situation with excessive use of abstract generalizations
intellectualization
individual has intolerable feelings of powerlessness, etc and compensates by exaggerating negative qualities of others
devaluation
individual deals with unwanted instincts, ideas, emotions by being unable to remember them
repression
acute paroxysms of anxiety indicate
panic anxiety –> panic attacks are unconscious conflicted feelings that break through to the surface
transference
replay of feelings, thoughts, perceptions about early relationships with the therapist
T/F some amount of anxiety promotes optimal functioning
T
Yerkes-Dodson Law
medium level of arousal is best for performance
Which GABA receptor is linked to anxiety?
A –> allows CL ions t`o enter cell, leading to ap inhibition
Which NE receptor has been more studied in relationship to anxiety and depression?
Alpha 2 –> excessive sympathetic activation may produce dysfunctional arousal
Behavioral inhibition
anxiety related: timidity and withdrawal in novel situations, exaggerated autonomic and HPA responses, slow habituation, familial trait, predisposed to panic disorder and social phobia
Neuroticism
chronic worry with intermittent periods of dysphoria, moderately heritable
Neuroticism is associated with allelic variations in promoter region of ____
serotonin transporter gene
Neuroticism is associated with a smaller _____
amygdal and cingulate –> abnormal activity of hippocampal and fronto-limbic circuits
T/F Neuroticism predisposes to generalized anxiety disorder
T
Reinforcement
increases likelihood of behavior
Punishment
decreases likelihood of behavior
Mowrer’s Two factor theory
anxiety begins with classical conditioning, maintained through operant conditioning (negative reinforcement)
Fear Extinction
learning not to fear or new learning and not forgetting –> present CS without US (unconditioned stimuli)
T/F fear response can occur in contexts different than where extinction occurred
T –> renewal
Modern Learning theory
exposure treatment: new safety learnign to compete with original fear learning; competition resolved by context (internal and external–> time, drug state, therapist office)
T/F extinction learning is particularly context specific
T –> must conduct extinction is multipel contexts
T/F Extinction abolishes CS-US association
F –> renewal, spontaneous recovery, reinstatement can all occur
Which brain region? stress response
locus coeruleus –> noradrenergic
Which brain region? emotional representations
Papez circuit –> thalamus to cortex (stream of thinking) to hypothalamus (stream of feeling) and sensory cortex to cingulate
The ___ is responsible to fear in response to cue.
Amygdala –>Amygdala essential for fear conditioning regardless of type of stimulus
____ responds to fear in response to context
hippocampus and amygdala –>Hippocampus essential for contextual fear conditioning but not for cued conditioning
Consistent with role of hippocampus for spatial and contextual processing
Which anxiety disorder? Excessive or unreasonable fear of specific objects/situations with self-recognition of unreasonable fear w/significant distress and interference with functioning
specific phobia
T/F specific phobias have a significant genetic factor
T
One session treatment
for specific phobia; rapid and effective; durable
Which anxiety disorder? fear of being embarrassed or humiliated in social situations
social phobia
Tx for social phobia
nefasodoen –> increase in insula, middle frontal gyrus, ACC, hippocampus; decrase in dorsolateral and medial PFC and dorsal ACC (cognitive control and self-reference)
Panic vs anxiety
panic = intense, physiological fear (peak in 10 minutes) –> immediate
Which anxiety disorder? persistent unexpected panic attacks w/ fear of other attacks and/or concern about implications
panic disorder
Which anxiety disorder? fear of places where might have a panic attack
agoraphobia
interoceptive fear
greater fear of fear
Tx of panic disorders
SSRIs, SNRIs, TCAs, benzos w/low starting dose; cbt –> decreased hippocampus, ACC, cerebellu, pons, medial PFC
Which anxiety disorder? excessive and uncontrollable worry >6 months + sleep, muscle, concentration problems
GAD
neurobiology of GAD
dampened connectivity between amygdala and ACC/insual –> worry to dampen emotional experience + greater connectivity between amygdala and DLPFC
Which disorder? person experienced/witnessed/confronted with event that involved actual or threatened death or serious injury or threat to physical integrity of self or others with response involving intense fear, helplessness, or horror w/ reexperience
PTSD (required symptoms > 1 month)
Fear conditioning process
CS (e.g. tone) + US (e.g shock ) –> freezing to tone
Traumatic fear conditioning process
dark street cs + mugging us= fear of dark streets
T/F PTSD seems to involve impaired fear extinction
T
Which fear response return? after passage of time
spontaneous recovery