PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Attentional Bias
15 Jun 2013
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What is it about the control of anxiety that might underlie these disorder. Panic disorder: you stay away from the situations that cue panic. Phobias: you deal with your issues by staying away from the situations that cause you to experience anxiety. Ritualistic and repetitive behaviours that people engage in to avoid anxiety. Strong, persistent fear: where does that thought or cognition come from and how can we treat the disorder by reducing these fears. Emotion regulation: failure to regulate the experience of fear or panic. Defense mechanisms: misapplication or overuse of unconscious defense mechanisms. Brain structure, function, chemistry: what are the underlying aspects of functioning or neurochemistry in the brain responsible for these anxiety disorders. Genetic bases: potential genetic basis that predisposes to anxiety. Etiology of anxiety behavioural classical conditioning of fear: based on the assumption that somehow the individual has come to associate these thoughts with anxiety through classical conditioning, have to understand how the learning takes place.
