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What was the Attentional Bias experiment by Mara Mather?

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groups (18-35 yrs) vs Older (62-94)
viewed pairs of faces neutral and happy 
neutral and sad
neutral and angry 
-Faces disappear; then dot appears 
-measure how quickly they look at dot
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Attention Bias:Findings for Younger subjects?

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Reaction times of younger subjects didn’t differ

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Attention Bias: Finding for Older Subjects?

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Responded to dot quicker if under happiness pic
responded to dot quicker if under neutral vs sad
responded to dot quicker if under neutral vs angry
-older people pay attention to positive info> negative info

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Does older age cause increased memory for positive emotional information?

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Yes.

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IAPS Pictures

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Subjects shown positive, negative, neutral pics

-older subjects recall/recognize positive pics> negative, neutral

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Emotion Attention and Memory in Older Age

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Attention to Negative info decreased

  • attention to positive info increases
  • Memory for positive info increases
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Emotional well being 70’s 80’s

Scheibe & Carstensen, 2010

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most people experience high levels of well-being into 70’s and 80’s EXCEPT last years of life!

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Why do people not experience high levels of well-being in last months, years of life?

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  • Increased motivation to regulate emotions

- increased competence to regulate

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Define “Positivity Effect”

Carstensen & Mikels, 2005

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The “positivity effect” refers to an age-related trend that favors positive over negative stimuli in cognitive processing. Relative to their younger counterparts, older people attend to and remember more positive than negative information.

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What is Psychopathology?

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  • scientific study of psychological disorders
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What is a Psychological disorder?

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Psychological dysfunction

  • breakdown in cognitive, emotional or behavioral functioning
  • distress or impairment in functioning
  • response that is atypical or not culturally expected
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Etiology - what causes psychological disorders?

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multiple influences- biological, environmental, social, behavioral

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What is the Diathesis- Stress Model

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behavioral predispositional vulnerability when paired with stress

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Topics discussed when talking about disorders

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  • onset
  • symptoms
  • course
  • treatment
  • prevalence and incidence
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Why is correct diagnosis important?

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  • Allows people who are experiencing a psychological disorder to be treated effectively
  • IMPORTANT topic for clinicians. researchers, and people being diagnosed
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Diagnostic Approach: Categorical What is it?

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Presence/absence

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Dimensional: What is it?

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To what extent? or how much?

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Categorical Approach: Strength

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Strength: Ease of diagnosis
Utility/Quality of diagnosis
-presence/absence of condition makes diagnosing easier and helps in treatment decisions

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Categorical Approach: Weakness

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Lack of clear boundaries among disorders

  • high rates of comorbidity
  • issue of different etiology, pathology & treatment
  • lack of clear boundaries- whats normal? whats not?
  • treating variations of condition as equal
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Dimensional Approach: Strength

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More reflective of reality, more valid descriptions
-more than yes- no questions
catered to individuals specific disorder
-captures frequency and severity

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Dimensional Approach: Weakness

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Little ease in diagnosing
less utility of diagnosis
reifying still could be problem

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DSM-5

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  • promotes dimensional aspects

- acknowledges weakness with categorical

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DSM-5 approach: Categorical but…

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“Although DSM-5 remains a categorical classification of separate disorders, we recognize that mental disorders do not always fit completely within the boundaries of a single disorder…In recognition of this reality, the disorders included in DSM-5 were reordered into a revised organizational structure meant to stimulate new clinical perspectives.”

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The Secret Life of Pronouns: Jamie Pennebaker

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Study on how words people use tell us about their emotion

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The Secret Life of Pronouns: Jamie Pennebaker Findings
``` We- words for positive experience I- words when in pain Past Tense- Words for sadness Present tense- words for anger For sadness and anger: more cognitive words that indicate self-reflection ```
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What is health? Biomedical model
Focus on illness - all illness explained by biological factors - psychological and social processes irrelevant
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Biopsychosocial Model
-Health and illness are consequences of interwoven biological, psychological and social influences emphasis on promoting health
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Topics: Relationship between emotion and health
- bidirectional - role of (negative or Positive) health behaviors - •Diet •Exercise •Sleep •Smoking •Meditation- Spotlight on sleep
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Sleep bi directional
focus on how sleep affects emotion
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Typical Sleep needs: Infants
• Infants | –About 16 hours per day of sleep
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Typical Sleep needs: Babies and toddlers
From 6months -3 years between 10 and 14 hours per day
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Typical Sleep needs: Children
-- Ages 3-6: between 10 and 12 –Ages 6 to 9: about 10 hours of sleep –Ages 9 to 12: about 9 hours of sleep
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Typical Sleep needs: Adults
7-8 hours a night
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Typical Sleep needs: older adults
= or more than adults
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Effects of Sleep deprivation
* Many negative consequences for personal well-being and health, relationships, and work * Lower life-satisfaction •Greater irritability •Contributes to “aging” •Weakened immune system •Poor decision-making •Diminished productivity and creativity •Impaired attention •Worse at recalling positive emotional memories
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Dangers of Sleep Deprivation
Driver fatigue causes 20% of auto accidents. •Also, contributes to piloting errors and airplane crashes •Many major disasters occur at night, when people in charge are sleep-deprived. –Exxon Valdez
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Dangers of Sleep Deprivation continued
Chronic SD- alters metabolic and hormonal functioning - mimics aging - obesity high blood pressure & memory impairment
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Benefits of sleep
* Longevity * People who sleep 7 to 8 hours per night tend to outlive those who are chronically sleep deprived * Academic Performance * Students who earn A’s and B’s in high school tend to sleep 25 minutes more per night than students earning C’s, D’s, and F’s
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More Benefits of Sleep
* Sleep promotes emotion regulation. * Partial sleep restriction (5 hours/night for a week) associated with more emotional complaints and disturbances. * Greater emotional reactivity in brain of sleep-deprived people, especially in amygdala (Yoo et al., 2007) * Sleep influences emotion recognition. * In one study, people who took naps were more sensitive to perceiving happy faces. People who did not nap were more sensitive to perceiving fearful and angry faces.
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Rem Sleep
• Big portion of emotion processing occurs here • Also important for cognitive functioning, like memory consolidation • Probably most critical stage for emotional functioning • REM sleep can take sting out of emotional memories. (Research by Matt Walker)
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Effects of REM Sleep Deprivation
• Poorer emotion regulation • Poorer concentration • Greater anxiety • Greater irritability
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Sleep Hygiene
* Exercise (but not late in evening) •Avoid caffeine after late afternoon * Relax before bedtime and dim light * Regular sleep-wake schedule •Bed just for sleep and sex * If can’t sleep after 20 mins, get out of bed * Turn on bright lights in morning •Melatonin and light
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What is happiness ?
subjective well being
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What is Seligman's tripartite model
orientation towards achieving happiness through pleasure, meaning, engagement(flow)
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Why study happiness?
To understand psychological health in addition to psychological dysfunction (Sheldon & King, 2001) •Independence of positive and negative affect (Diener & Emmons, 1984) • Universal goal (Ben-Shahar, 2007) • Implications for public policy
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Interesting topics in the study of happiness
affective forcasting | hedonic treadmill
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Broaden and build
Fredrickson- positive emotions, joy love contentment expand inventory and thoughts and action -develop physical mental and social resources
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What predicts happiness? | Education?
More education related to greater happiness (until a certain point)
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What predicts happiness? Money
•Virtually no relationship after basic needs are met •But, how we spend money matters
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What predicts happiness? Relationships
one of the most robust predictors
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What boosts happiness?
• Gratitude (Lyubomirsky) • Flow (Cziksentmihalyi) • Sleep • Exercise • Mindfulness

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