PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Neuromodulation, Trichotillomania
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Fear: the central nervous system"s physiological + emotional response to a serious threat to one"s well being. Anxiety: the central nervous system"s physiological + emotional response to a vague sense of threat or danger. Gad (generalized anxiety disorder): general + persistent feelings of worry + anxiety. Agoraphobia fear of traveling to public places. Social anxiety disorder: afraid of social or performance situations. Emerges any age, most common in childhood/adolescence, women more prone to it. Most likely to develop in people who are faced w/ on going societal conditions that are dangerous. Poverty, twice as high as people with higher incomes. Not everyone develops in these situations, must be other factors. Freud: children experience some degree of anxiety as part of growing up, defense mechanisms. Neurotic anxiety: repeatedly prevented by parents or circumstances, from expressing id impulses. Moral anxiety: when they are punished or threatened for expressing their id impulses. Early development experiences can cause unusually high anxiety in child.
