Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Sympathetic Nervous System, Panic Disorder, Panic Attack

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

A common emotion physical symptoms, future-oriented thoughts, and escape or avoidance behaviours (=worry) Occurs when people encounter a new situation or anticipate a life-changing event. Usually time-limited and ends when the event is over. Cognitive symptom = subjective distress: subjective distress distress that one feels. Two classical behavioural symptoms of anxiety: fearing a situation, avoiding the situation. Worry conjuring up an image of failure. Behavioural therapy reduce pattern of negative reinforcement that maintains the avoidance behaviour. Figure 4. 3 negative reinforcement increases avoidance behaviour and anxiety: see a spider in the bathroom you become anxious you run away from the spider. You feel better but you also learn that escape/avoidance eliminates fear so you are more likely to avoid the next spider and your fear grows. For abnormal, must consider: functional impairment, sociodemographic factors (sex, race, socioeconomic status, developmental age, cognitive development, not actual chronological age. Table 4. 1 common fears at various developmental ages.