PSYC 3530H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sympathetic Nervous System, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Exposure Therapy

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3530H
• Professor: Brenda Smith- Chant

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Step 1 get topic; narrow your topic. Not meta-analysis (study of studies: annotated bibliography cite the aricle at the top. Summarize the central theme and scope aricle idenify the research quesion, main methods, major results. Compare or contrast this work with another you have cited. Explain the points this paper makes to your thesis/argument. Most good papers don"t go: intro, summarizing 5 papers, conclude. Anything in the textbook can be a topic. Anxiety disorders: separaion anxiety disorder and selecive muism (both new) Trauma and stressor-related disorders (new category: following exposure to acute or chronic stressor, tsd in children younger than 6 (only) Obsessive-compulsive and related disorders (new category: no longer in the personality disorder category because it doesn"t exist. Also used to appear as a personality trait (axis) Separaion anxiety: brad is terriied of being separated from his mother, he follows her around the house constantly, needing to know where she is.