PSYC 1010 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Phobia, Agoraphobia

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Jill Bee Rich

Document Summary

Involve feelings of anxiety or distress but they don"t lead to distortions of reality. Anxiety disorders: generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorders. Feel anxiety to a specific phobic stimulus or situation. Broken down into simple and social phobias. Simple are the ones that are phobias to simple specific things. Social phobias are referring to situations where people feel anxious: panic disorders and agoraphobia (fear of leaving the house, obsessive compulsive disorder. Compulsive ritualistic behaviour that they need to do: post-traumatic stress disorder. Somatoform disorders (short answer!: fall somewhere between psychological and medical disorders and refer to physical symptoms that have no physiological basis, not to be confused with psychosomatic disorders, types: Mental disability takes on a physical form. Minor physical ailments are misinterpreted as major issues. Dissociative disorders: to dissociate/separate from something else, dissociative amnesia/dissociative fuge, multiple personality disorder. These people can start as one person, then become another completely different personality without knowing the other ones exist.