PSY-2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Taste, Refrigerator Mother Theory, Lobotomy
Document Summary
Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: explains symptoms of disorders, substance, eating, sexual, anxiety, etc. Generalized anxiety disorder: characterized by excessive, uncontrollable, and often irrational worry about everyday things that is disproportionate to the actual source of worry, symptoms. 6 months of 3 or more of these symptoms. Panic attack & panic disorder: symptoms. Phobias: persistent excessive or unreasonable fear in response to a cue (flying, heights, injections, blood, etc. , exposure to cue creates anxiety response or attack, avoids fear at all costs, phobia types. Makes them feel better: extremely disturbed by their thoughts. Post traumatic stress disorder: experience threat, death, or serious injury and response involved intense reaction, trauma experienced. Symptoms: depressed mood, weight change or appetite disturbance (significant amount 5%, sleep disturbance, decreased interests or pleasure, psychomotor changes, loss of energy, worthlessness or inappropriate gifts, concentration difficulties or indecision, thoughts of death of suicide.
