PSYC 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Observational Learning, Substance Abuse, Opponent Process

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1000
• Professor: Benjamin Giguere

Document Summary

Characterized by a permanent and irrational fear that typically brings people to avoid certain situations, people or objects. General anxiety disorder: apprehension and agitation persistent and uncontrollable. Inability to find the causes of the anxiety (free-floating fear) Phobia: a specific phobia is diagnosed when there is an uncontrollable, irrational, intense desire to avoid certain situations, people or objects. Obsessions: intense, unwanted worries, ideas, and images that repeatedly pop up in the mind. Compulsion: repeatedly strong feeling of needing to carry out an action. It becomes a disorder when a person has distress and dysfunction. Distress: when you are deeply frustrated with not being able to control the behaviours. Dysfunction: when the time and mental energy spent on these thoughts and behaviours interfere with everyday life. In anxiety disorders, such types of cognitions appear repeatedly and often automatically: acquired through direct and observational learning (3) personality.