PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Little Albert Experiment, Classical Conditioning
30 Mar 2016
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Characterized by a permanent and irrational fear that typically brings people to avoid certain situations, people, or objects. We will cover: generalized anxiety disorder (gad, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd) Inability to identify the cause(s) of the anxiety (free-floating fear) Activation of the autonomic system (increased hr, perspiration, preparing you for fight or flight) Thinking a headache is a brain tumor, letting it grow out of control. 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) When is it a disorder: distress: when you are deeply frustrated with not being able to control the behaviors, dysfunction: when the time and mental energy spent on these thoughts and behaviors interfere with everyday life. The result is a phobia or generalized anxiety.
