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Cognitive Explaination of OCDs
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- 1Characteristics of People With OCD's- More likely to suffer from depression
- Very high moral standards and standards of conduct
- They believe that their obsessive thoughts are just like performing behaviours and that their thoughts can harm others
- They believe that they should be able to have control over their thoughts an behaviours - 2Neutralising Effect-Compulsive behaviour has a neutralising effect on obsessive thoughts and images
- A persons attempt to eliminate unwanted thoughts by thinking or behaving in ways that put matters right internally, making up for the unacceptable thoughts - 3Rachmanns Four Steps1. Presence of obsessional thoughts or images
2. Catastrophic misinterpretations of thoughts
3. Fear and high level of anxiety
4. Attempts to resist and avoid the thoughts - 4Rachman and HodgesCognitively vulnerable people are more susceptible to OCD's. Factors eg. genetically determined hyper-arousability, depression, ect
- 5Evaluation-Very little evidence that OCD's are a result of socialisation experiences
-Sher, people that scored highly on a measure of compulsive behaviour also showed a memory deficit for recently preformed actions, shows a cognitive deficit
-Explains how OCD is maintained
-Davidson and Neale, OCD patients are unable to distinguish reality and imagination
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- A-Levels Psychology (PSYB2 - Phobias/OCDs) Karteikarten am Cognitive Explaination of OCDs, erstellt von Adam O'Rourke am 02/06/2013.
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