PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder
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Emotions are important because they help you prioritize tasks: but too much emotion is a bad thing. Revs you up to help you prepare for your fears. Focuses your attention at your task at hand. But panic is induced, not allowing you to perform the task. Becomes a disorder when it causes more arousal than it should (arousal is too high) Most common anxieties: public speaking, getting old. Most common cause of anxiety disorder is stress. An unpleasant emotional state ranging from mild unease to intense fear. A certain amount of anxiety, however, is normal and serves to improve performance: motivates you to complete the task, eg. Anxiety arouses you to action- it gears you up to face a threatening situation: it makes you study harder for that exam, keeps you on your toes when making a speech, in general, it helps you cope. Different from fear: fear or panic is a basic emotion that involves activation of the.
