PSYC 2030U Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Caudate Nucleus, Eye Movement, Brain Tumor
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Lecture 7, abnormal psychology, anxiety, obsessive compulsive and trauma and stress related disorder, july 25th 2016. Fear the central nervous system"s physiological and emotional response to a serious threat to one"s well-being. Anxiety an emotional state characterized by physiological arousal, unpleasant feelings of tension, and a sense of apprehension or foreboding to a vague sense of threat or danger. Adaptive when it prompts us to seek medical attention, to study for upcoming tests or avoid dangerous situations. Anxiety disorder a class of psychological disorders characterized by excessive or maladaptive anxiety reactions. Maladaptive when the level is out of proportion to level of threat or when it occurs out of the blue, not in response to environmental changes. Chronic, relatively intense, associated with role impairment, and causing significant distress for self or others. In chronically anxious people there is a propensity to perceive threat and to be concerned/worried when there is no objective threat or the situation is ambiguous.
