PY 461 Study Guide - Final Guide: Farad, Operant Conditioning, Anxiety Disorder

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PY 461
• Professor: Ainsley Gilpin

Document Summary

Fear- behavioral/psychological (autonomic) reaction to immediate threat (confrontation and escape: reacting to an actual threat. Worry- cognitive response to threat, in which the person considers/prepares for future danger/misfortune: chronic state of psychological distress that can cause uneasiness, apprehension, and tension, accompanied by thoughts and self-statements about the future. Intensity that is out of proportion to the perceived threat, chronicity that lasts beyond removal of the immediate threat, and impairment. Intensity becomes maladaptive when it causes intense feelings or distress or psychological discomfort causing physical and emotional discomfort: chronic worry is maladaptive when it is an experience long-standing agitation as well as. Functioning: adaptive anxiety most anxiety is moderate and adaptive; can motivate us, maladaptive anxiety can be differentiated from adaptive anxiety by its intensity, chronicity, and degree of impairment. Anxiety in children to maladaptive: lies on a continuum from developmentally expected and adaptive (to achieve developmental tasks, children"s fears and worry reflect their stage of cognitive, emotional, and social development.