A PSY 333 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Selective Mutism
10 May 2020
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Physical system: fight or flight response, mediated by the sympathetic system. Cognitive system: attentional shift and hypervigilance, nervousness, difficulty concentrating. Normal fears, anxieties, worries and rituals (pg. Children with anxiety disorder worry more intensely. Ritualistic and repetitive activity common in young children. Gain control and mastery of their environment. Girls tend to have more anxiety than boys. Fear is more adaptive in children but if they still have those fears when they"re older than it can turn into an issue. Extreme, disabling fear of a specific object or situation that pose little or no harm. The child may not realize the fear is extreme and unreasonable. Often leads to avoidance and distributed routines. Adults may realize that their fear is unreasonable or extreme but children may not realize. Marked, persistent fear of being the focus k attention, or doing something humiliating. Most common fear is doing something in front of other people.
