PS101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Classical Conditioning, Operant Conditioning, Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder
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Ps101 - lecture 16 - psychological disorders part 2. Sleep, tension, nausea, diarrhea, urination, sweating, palpitations. Estimate the heritability to be about 30% Fear about the occurrence and consequences of further attacks. Symptoms: a pounding heart, uncontrollable trembling or shaking, and a feeling of being choked or smothered. Can have significant social and health consequences. Persistent, irrational fear of an object, situation, or activity that poses no real danger. Realize fear is irrational but compelled to avoid the feared object or situation. Social phobia: fear of interacting with others; avoid social situations. Agoraphobia: like social; more complicated; fear of being in a situation from which escape is difficult or impossible. Specific phobia: fear of a specific thing. Obsessions: persistent, recurring, involuntary thoughts, images, or impulses that invade consciousness. Doubt as to whether a certain act was performed. Compulsion: a persistent, irresistible, irrational urge to perform an act or ritual repeatedly.
