PSYC 3082 Chapter : Chapter 4 Outline Abnormal Psych
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Future-oriented mood state characterized by marked negative affect. Immediate fight or flight response to danger or threat. Involves abrupt activation of the sympathetic nervous system. Psychological disorders pervasive and persistent symptoms of anxiety and fear. Symptoms and avoidance causes clinically significant distress and impairment. Accompanied by several physical symptoms (e. g. , breathlessness, chest pain) Situationally bound (cued) panic expected and bound to some. Unexpected (uncued) panic unexpected out of the blue without. Situationally predisposed panic may or may not occur in some situations situations warning. Panic is analogous to fear as an alarm response. The relationships among anxiety, fear, and panic attack. Inherit vulnerabilities for anxiety and panic, not anxiety disorders. Stress and life circumstances activate the underlying vulnerability. Anxiety involves reactivation of an infantile fear situation. Anxiety and fear result from direct classical and operant conditioning and modeling. Stressful life events as triggers of biological/psychological vulnerabilities. Biological vulnerability interacts with psychological, experimental, and social variables to produce an anxiety disorder.
