PSY 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Twin Study, Tic Disorder, Hand Washing
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Direct experience -- ex. bit by dog --> fear them. Vicarious experience -- ex. friend got bit --> you"re scared of dogs now: ptsd for people who watched 911. Information transmission -- hear about things and that fear gets transferred to you: mom scared of snakes --> they talk about them as dangerous all the time --> you fear them now. Cognitive-behavior therapies (this is a behavioral based therapy: exposure. Graduated exposure like the one you can facilitate with an anxiety hierarchy. Looking for habituation across visits (across days, weeks) not within visits (the session) because learning takes a lot of time. This scale can tell you how a patient feels during and before and after exposure --> how you plot anxiety during sessions and over time (across sessions) on a graph. Key difference: extreme fear of what others are thinking of you (fear or rejection or embarrassment)
