PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Twin, Operant Conditioning, Social Skills
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Anxiety disorders (most common disorders we see: a category of disorders involving fear or nervousness that is excessive, irrational, and maladaptive. Frequency and intensity of anxiety response is out of proportion to the situation: duration, degree, and source (words they use in the textbook but same thing as above) Four components of the anxiety response: emotional symtoms. Apprehension: cognitive symptoms (the things you think about) Thoughts about inability to cope (typical thought: physiological symptoms (primary for anxiety disorders) (symptoms that seem more problematic to them, what they report the most: behavioural symptoms (what they do in response to anxiety) Panic disorder: most people have had a panic attack, panic disorder only develops when you start to fear having a panic attack. Understanding anxiety disorders: psychological factors: cognitive explanations. Things are appraised catastrophically": learning explanations and social explanations. Some disorders are culturally bound: fear of offending someone, fear of being possessed, fear of being fat.
