PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Avoidant Personality Disorder, Systematic Desensitization, Startle Response
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Psy340: lecture 4: anxiety disorders: may 18, 2017. Anxiety is good to experience, it can be motivational, get the blood flowing and make you do what it necessary, it is adaptive and does not have to be negative. This helps you prioritize tasks and complete the task you are anxious about. Fear is different, both involve the same emotion, but fear is an emotion that you feel in response to a direct threat (i. e. a bear is attacking you, pop quiz). Anxiety is a response to a perceived threat (cid:894)assig(cid:374)(cid:373)e(cid:374)t is due, (cid:373)idter(cid:373) - these thi(cid:374)gs (cid:272)a(cid:374)"t hurt (cid:455)ou(cid:895) Dysfunctional anxiety is when the anxiety becomes to intense, last for a longer duration and with more frequency. An unpleasant emotional state ranging from mild unease to intense fear. When these animals meet other animals they naturally feel anxious meeting them.
