PSYC 3390 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Automatic Negative Thoughts, Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Twin Study

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Week 5 - chapter 6- panic and anxiety: neurotic behaviour is maladaptive and self-defeating, but these people are not out of touch with reality, incoherent, or dangerous. To freud, neuroses were psychological disorders that resulted when intrapsychic conflict produced significant anxiety. Panic attacks also accompanied by subjective sense of impending doom (fears of dying, going crazy, losing control) Fear and panic have 3 components: cognitive/subjective (i. e. i am going to die) o, behavioural (urge to escape) Physiological (increased heart rate) fear: anxiety is a complex blend of unpleasant emotions and cognitions that is more oriented to the future and much more diffuse than, has similar cognitive/subjective, behavioural, and physiological components to fear. Cognitive level- anxiety includes negative mood, worry about later threat of danger, self-preoccupation, sense of being unable to predict future threat or to control it if it occurs. Physiological level- anxiety creates tension and chronic overarousal.