PSY 602 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pandas, Progressive Muscle Relaxation, Behavioral Activation
21 Nov 2016
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Anxiety: future oriented emotion, perceptions of uncontrollability and unpredictability over potentially aversive events, rapid shift in attention to the focus of potentially dangerous events and one"s own response. Fear is an alarm reaction to present threat, worry is intrusive thoughts about negative outcomes, panic is to these symptoms of anxiety in absence of perceived threat. Anxiety is the immediate response to perceived threat, actions aimed at escaping farm by confronting source (fight) or evading it (flight); exposure in sympathetic system, increased anxiety to panic peak, then decrease in parasympathetic system through habituation. Somatic symptoms are tense muscles, increased heart rate, dilated pupils, adrenaline secretion, respiration, etc. Emotional symptoms are terror, restlessness, sense of dread, etc. Cognitive symptoms are anticipation of harm, exaggeration of fear, ruminative thinking, fear of dying, etc. Behavioral symptoms include avoidance, aggression, freezing, decreased appepitive response, etc.
