PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: False Alarm, Alarm Device, Anxiety Disorder
12 Dec 2019
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If we think of the sympathetic ns as an alarm system. Goes off and tells us we need to do something. Eg. if we see a bear we want an alarm to go off. Alarm is not going off at the right time. Alarm system going off but no intruder. We need to have some of this. We need fear when there is a bear around. Eg. we need to know if we"re doing thing socially correctly. Things may be problematic and we need to pay attention. Be anxious enough to want to do well and pass. Afraid enough of car accidents that they don"t txt and drive. But when you start to worry too much it becomes destructive. Fear is adaptive - unless and until . When anxiety is high = anxiety disorder. We want a medium level of anxiety to perform the best. More common than people have more than one disorder.
