PSY341H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Autism Spectrum, Separation Anxiety Disorder, Psychosis
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Psy341: lecture 9: abnormal psychology child disorders: ocd & anxiety disorders. Anxiety can be adaptive, at moderate levels, low anxiety in situation will not enforce productive behaviors. Extreme anxiety can cause people to engage in maladaptive coping strategies: this class in on extreme anxiety. Fear present oriented emotional response to an immediate threat. Worry thinking about future negative outcomes. Anxiety future-oriented apprehension; may be experienced even when no threat is present. Panic sudden, unexpected fight-or-flight response when no threat is present. Short term, anxiety is levitated, but long term as the anxiety is negatively reinforced (removing the stressor of being separated), and it becomes worse. Specific phobia: description: significant fear or anxiety about a specific object or situation (e. g. , flying, heights, needles, animals, vomiting, dentists, out of proportion to actual threat (bigger response that what is expected) In children, may be expressed by crying, tantrum, freezing, clinging.