Wk 6 MH

Question 1

___% of adults (aged 16 +) in Great Britain reported moderate to severe depression

Answer 1

16

Question 2

Attributions model of low mood/depression

Answer 2

Abrahamson 1978, internal, stable and global attributional style to make understanding of negative life experiences

Question 3

Rumination model of low mood/depression

Answer 3

(dwelling)
“compulsively focused attention on the symptoms of ones distress, and on its possible causes and consequences opposed to its solution)

Question 4

__% of adults (16 +) in Great Britain scored ≥3 on GAD-2. Indicating some form of anxiety was likely for them

Answer 4

16

Question 5

285 students from the school of psychology and clinical language services at a UK university
Measured anxiety using GAD-2 - ___% sample had a score ≥3
(Jenkins et al., 2020

Answer 5

41.2

Question 6

When can these feelings anxiety become a problem?

Answer 6

1. long period of time
2. distressing + uncontrollable
3. Disrupts functioning

Question 7

psychological theories of anxiety: “catastrophic appraisals”

Answer 7

People often overestimate threat and the concequence of threat (e.g: increased heart rate percieved as heart attack)

Question 8

psych theory of anxiety: Attentional processes:

Answer 8

particularly selective attention to threat-related info

Question 9

What is trauma?

Answer 9

Experience of negative life events

Distressing reaction to adverse life experiences that exceeds a person’s ability to cope, or integrate the emotions involved in these experiences

Question 10

Approximately __% of the population has experienced a potentially traumatic event

Answer 10

70%

Question 11

percentage of people who develop PTSD after experiencing trauma

Answer 11

7%

Question 12

BODILY/PHYSIOLOGICAL CHANGES in experience trauma related difficulties?

Answer 12

• Hyper-arousal,
• feeling on edge/alert;
• pain,
• sweating,
• nausea,
• trembling etc

Question 13

affect/emotional changes after trauma

Answer 13

intense emotions- shame, fear guilt, disgust, feeling emotionally numb or detached

Question 14

cognitive changes after trauma

Answer 14

• Flashbacks,
• concentration difficulties,
• avoidance,
• dissociation.
• (re-experiencing)

Question 15

Psychological theories of trauma. memory accounts:

to explain the re-experiencing features

Answer 15

• intense emotional distress + other cog reactions disrupt normal encoding memory processing
• Trauma memories stored in fragmented, decontextualised way,
• Rather than integrated, coherent recollections people will experience chaotic intrusive memories (including smells, emotions, physical sensations) that are vivid and easily triggered by contextual cues that are only loosely associated with trauma