PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Characterized by a permanent and irrational fear that typically brings people to avoid certain situations, people or objects. Inability to identify the cause(s) of the anxiety (free- oating fear) Activation of the autonomic system, could feel like a heart attack. A phobia is more than just a strong fear or dislike. A speci c phobia is diagnosed when there is an uncontrollable, irrational, intense desire to avoid certain situations, people or objects. Obsessions are intense, unwanted worries, ideas and images that repeatedly pop up in the mind. A compulsion is a repeatedly strong feeling of needing to carry out an action (even though it doesn"t feel like it makes sense) Distress: when you are deeply frustrated with not being able to control the behaviours. Dysfunction: when the time and mental energy spent on these thoughts and behaviours interfere with everyday life: understanding anxiety disorders.