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Moul, Caroline; Killcross, Simon; Dadds, Mark R. – Psychological Review, 2012
This article introduces a novel hypothesis regarding amygdala function in psychopathy. The first part of this article introduces the concept of psychopathy and describes the main cognitive and affective impairments demonstrated by this population; that is, a deficit in fear-recognition, lower conditioned fear responses and poor performance in…
Descriptors: Fear, Comparative Analysis, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Psychopathology
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Monroe, Scott M.; Mineka, Susan – Psychological Review, 2008
The mnemonic model of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) proposed by D. C. Rubin, D. Berntsen, and M. K. Bohni presents some provocative and potentially insightful ideas about this mental disorder. D. C. Rubin et al. suggested that PTSD is caused and maintained through a "pathogenic memory" (D. C. Rubin et al., 2008, p. 985) of a negative event…
Descriptors: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Mental Disorders, Memory, Mnemonics
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Kanter, J. W.; Busch, A. M.; Weeks, C. E.; Landes, S. J. – Behavior Analyst, 2008
In this article we discuss the traditional behavioral models of depression and some of the challenges analyzing a phenomenon with such complex and varied features. We present the traditional model and suggest that it does not capture the complexity of the phenomenon, nor do syndromal models of depression that dominate the mainstream…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Cognitive Processes, Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Rosen, Alexander C. – Percept Mot Skills, 1970
Descriptors: Attitude Change, Cognitive Processes, Community Role, Concept Formation