AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Compulsions. Compulsions are repetitive behaviors or mental acts that a person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession. The behaviors typically prevent or reduce a person’s distress related to an obsession temporarily, and they are then more likely to do the same in the future.

Detailed explanation-2: -Research suggests that OCD involves problems in communication between the front part of the brain and deeper structures of the brain. These brain structures use a neurotransmitter (basically, a chemical messenger) called serotonin.

Detailed explanation-3: -The 2 main treatments are: talking therapy – usually a type of therapy that helps you face your fears and obsessive thoughts without “putting them right” with compulsions. medicine – usually a type of antidepressant medicine that can help by altering the balance of chemicals in your brain.

Detailed explanation-4: -Overt compulsions typically include checking, washing, hoarding or symmetry of certain motor actions. Covert compulsions, or ‘cognitive compulsions’, as they are sometimes referred to, are the carrying out of mental actions, as opposed to physical ones.