PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Panic Attack
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Chapter 6 anxiety disorder, ocd & ptsd. Anxiety is regarded as having 2 distinguishable components; the physiological and the cognitive. The physiological component is the heightened level of arousal and physiological activation. The cognitive component is the subjective perception of the anxious arousal and the associated cognitive processes: worry and rumination. Separation anxiety: the anxious arousal and worry about losing contact with and proximity to other people, typically s. os. Phobias - fear and avoidance of objects or situations that do not present any real danger. The te(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:862)pho(cid:271)ia(cid:863) i(cid:373)plies that the pe(cid:396)so(cid:374) suffe(cid:396)s i(cid:374)te(cid:374)se dist(cid:396)ess a(cid:374)d so(cid:272)ial o(cid:396) o(cid:272)(cid:272)upatio(cid:374)al impairment because of the anxiety. New phobias tend to emerge in keeping with societal changes. Psychoanalysts focus on the content of the phobia and see the phobia object as a symbol of an important unconscious fear. Behaviorists tend to ignore the content of the phobia and focus instead on its function.
