Predominant mood in grief is feelings of emptiness and loss , while in depression, one has a persistent low mood and anhedonia .  Mood in greif improves over days to weeks in waves , while it is persistent in case of depression. In greif there may be waves of positive feelings including humor as compared to depression where , there is only low mood.  The grieved person is preoccupied with memories of the deceased, depression on the other hand is characterised by the depressive cognitions of guilt, pessimism, hopelessness, worthlessness. 

Trust your Autonomy and Initiate the Industry , or your idenity will be isolated rather than self integrated . Trust versus mistrust  Autonomy versus shame and doubt Initiative versus shame and doubt Industry versus inferiority  Identity versus confusion Intimacy versus isolation   Generativity vs self absoption Integreity vs despair

Encoding can be enriched with the following techniques  MESI Motivation to remeber (should be high) Elaboration Self-referent (making the information self-refrent)  Imagery (create visual imagery of items you are memorizing) 

Mnemonic for Freud's Stages of Psychosexual Development The following sentence helps me remember the stages of psychosexual development in order.  O nions A nd P otatoes L ook G reat Oral Anal Phallic Latency  Genital 

VAP.  Vulnerable personality Availability of drugs, adverse social environment  Pharmacological factors