PSY 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Reinforcement, Hypervigilance, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
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Fear- immediate, present-oriented: sympathetic nervous system activation. Anxiety- apprehensive, future-oriented: somatic symptoms = tension. Both are types of worrying the difference is what we worry about and how we worry about it will distinguish the difference between them. All anxiety disorders have to do with fear or worry: different disorders simply fear or worry about different thing. There are biological predisposition in anxiety disorders: book does a good job explaining/describing biological predisposition. There are cognitive factors in anxiety disorders as well: types of questions: What kinds of thoughts/assumptions may lead to worry? . Might worry about future, being sick, having cancer, public speaking: we worry about things that might harm us. We are all on this continuum but that doesn"t mean we have gad. Needs to go to a certain degree on continuum before you are declared with gad: these everyday concerns become uncontrollable and it is strong, persistent anxiety, also get somatic symptoms:
