PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Inner Ear, Virtual Reality, Autonomic Nervous System
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Chapter 6: anxiety, obsessive compulsive, and post traumatic stress disorders. Anxiety is an unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension. An anxiety disorder is diagnosed when feelings of anxiety are clearly present. Anxiety has 2 distinguished components: physiological and cognitive: physiological: heightened eke of arousal and physiological activation. The heightened arousal and the tension is reflected by symptoms as high heart rate: cognitive: is the subjective perception of the anxious arousal and the associated cognitive processes: worry and rumination. Anxiety tends to focus on the future and things that might happen. Persistent uncontrollable worry about many themes is the main component of generalized anxiety disorder. Diagnosed when subjectively experienced feelings of anxiety are clearly present. Most common psychological disorder; 1 in 5. Clear gender difference: 16% women, 9% men. Women 14 to 24 years old: separation anxiety. Anxiety that results from not having contact or the possibility of losing contact with attachment figures.
