Saturday, October 13, 2012
Autism
Autism
Autism is complex developmental disorder. It affects on the brain's normal developments of social and communication skills. People ,who have an autism, can not be good at social interaction, verbal and nonverbal communication and have a problems to process the information from senses, be restricted and repetitive patterns in behavior.
People who have the autism are indifferent and remote. Also, they cannot make emotional bond. Emotional bond is emotional issues like trust, respect and recognition.
People who have an autism are hard to regulate their emotion, and maintain calm state. Some people have a problem in cognition and show some high level of depression.
Sunday, October 7, 2012
Flashbulb Memory
1. What is flashbulb memory?
Flashbulb memory is vivid, concrete, accurate, highly detailed, and long lasting memories of the moment and circumstance when hearing some piece of surprising news. It suggests surprise, indiscriminate illusion, and conciseness.
2. Explain eah of these studies:
a. Brown & Kulik(1977)
They asked questions to 80 Americans when they heard about the news that was many people knew it. They used the major events, such as assassination of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and the day of Princess Diana's death.
b. Neisser & Harsch(1992)
They asked questions to 106 participants about the day when the space shuttle was explored. They asked where, what they doing, who told them and what time it occurred. After two month, they did it again and compared it.
c. Talarico & Rubin
They told to people about terrorist attack in September 11 and recent everyday events. After that, they tested again either 1, 6, or 32 later.
3. What are the important determinants of FBM?
The emotion and social determinants are important in FBM, also physiological arousal is important determinants.
4. What role does emotion play in FBM?
Emotion affects on memory that emotion plays in forming in FBM.
Flashbulb memory is vivid, concrete, accurate, highly detailed, and long lasting memories of the moment and circumstance when hearing some piece of surprising news. It suggests surprise, indiscriminate illusion, and conciseness.
2. Explain eah of these studies:
a. Brown & Kulik(1977)
They asked questions to 80 Americans when they heard about the news that was many people knew it. They used the major events, such as assassination of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King, and the day of Princess Diana's death.
b. Neisser & Harsch(1992)
They asked questions to 106 participants about the day when the space shuttle was explored. They asked where, what they doing, who told them and what time it occurred. After two month, they did it again and compared it.
c. Talarico & Rubin
They told to people about terrorist attack in September 11 and recent everyday events. After that, they tested again either 1, 6, or 32 later.
3. What are the important determinants of FBM?
The emotion and social determinants are important in FBM, also physiological arousal is important determinants.
4. What role does emotion play in FBM?
Emotion affects on memory that emotion plays in forming in FBM.
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
PTSD: Treatments
IB Psychology
There are many treatments for PTSD(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), and one of the treatments is Trauma - focused cognitive - behavioral theory(TF-CBT). It is that a psychotherapy which is based treatment model to expose themselves gradually. It can be exposed by thoughts, feelings, situation, and behavior when trauma is made.It is well effective treatment. Not only people, who have a PTSD, but their family can learn the skills about the treatment, and can learn the skills about behavior.
Second one is family therapy, family therapy is that family care them to recover PTSD. PTSD cannot understand their emotion easily. so their family helps to them by saying their love and make them understand what is the emotion and love. Also, family can communicate each other ,also their relationship can be close than before. Last one is that medication. It is using the medicine to treat the PTSD. Antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft is common medicine to use in PTSD. It helps to feel less emotion, such as sad and worried because of PTSD.
Reference:
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/post_traumatic_stress_disorder_symptoms_treatment.htm
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/projectbest/tfcbt/tfcbt.htm
There are many treatments for PTSD(Post Traumatic Stress Disorder), and one of the treatments is Trauma - focused cognitive - behavioral theory(TF-CBT). It is that a psychotherapy which is based treatment model to expose themselves gradually. It can be exposed by thoughts, feelings, situation, and behavior when trauma is made.It is well effective treatment. Not only people, who have a PTSD, but their family can learn the skills about the treatment, and can learn the skills about behavior.
Second one is family therapy, family therapy is that family care them to recover PTSD. PTSD cannot understand their emotion easily. so their family helps to them by saying their love and make them understand what is the emotion and love. Also, family can communicate each other ,also their relationship can be close than before. Last one is that medication. It is using the medicine to treat the PTSD. Antidepressants such as Prozac and Zoloft is common medicine to use in PTSD. It helps to feel less emotion, such as sad and worried because of PTSD.
Reference:
http://www.helpguide.org/mental/post_traumatic_stress_disorder_symptoms_treatment.htm
http://academicdepartments.musc.edu/projectbest/tfcbt/tfcbt.htm
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