PSYC 2030U Lecture 5: Abnormal Psychology_lecture 5
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Anxiety is a negative mood state characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and apprehension about the future (american. Anxiety not only leads to changes in behaviors, feelings and physiology, but it can also be caused by changes in behaviors, feelings and physiology. When the bis is activated by signals that arise from the brain stem or descend from the cortex, our tendency is to freeze, experience anxiety, and apprehensively evaluate the situation to confirm that danger is present. Biological contributions for anxiety and panic suggest that people inherit the tendency to be anxious or highly emotional. Psychological contributions for anxiety and panic originated with freud, who saw anxiety as a psychic reaction to danger surrounding the reactivation of an infantile fear situation. Behaviourists view anxiety as a product of classical conditioning or modelling. Social contributions focus on the relation between stressful life events as triggers for biological and psychological vulnerabilities for anxiety and panic.
