PSYC 337 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: White Matter, Orexin, Information Processing
1 Dec 2016
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Over 200 psychological tests that claim to measure anxiety. Warning system the essense of pathology for psychoanalysis. But they don"t correlate well with physical measures (cid:523)changes in sympathetic. Issue with changes in sns change for multiple reasons (e. g. exercise) putting pencil marks around objects to make sure they hadn"t been moved. Over control and avoidance sleep schedule multiple disruptors (bell + shock example, either one doesn"t produce disruption but both does) anticipation of following trauma. Analytic theory view: warning that there is conflict between id and superego. Neo-analytic view: anticipation of loss/something going wrong. Behavioural view: conditioned emotional response occurring b/c of pairing. More to anxiety than just disruption in behaviour: excitement, over- Dreaded anticipation of something going wrong reactivity, excessive vigilance, response rigidity, faulty generalization (come to conclusions that are result of narrowed perception) Luria studied highly anxious students vs. controls. Press bulb with right hand (measuring steadiness) Systematic: amygdala functions as default mechanism for appraisal (react.
