PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Heart Rate Variability, Knockout Mouse, Generalized Anxiety Disorder

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AP3
• Professor: Richard B Day

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Individuals who have jaygee show a lower level of ability to control or moderate the heart rate responses through the vague isn"t there. That"s also true with individuals who don"t have. Any anxiety disorder but rate themselves as high in general levels of anxiety. So high trait anxiety as it"s called is also associated with low levels of heart rate variability low levels of upper level cognitive control of the heart rate through the vigorous nerve. It"s also associated with what is called behavioral inhibition in children A phrase that has replaced in the past the syndrome if you like. And it"s considered conceptually to be a combination of high introversion. And eroticism as well as you know is associated with. Higher levels of negative emotionality negative emotion expression. And research shows that kids who are high in behavioral inhibition. More likely in fact experience levels of anxiety unusual in kids also have low levels of heart rate variability.