PSYB32H3 Lecture 6: PSYB32 - Chapter 6
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Anxiety : characterized by unpleasant feeling of fear or apprehension. Anxiety is future-focused emphasis on things that could happen. Test anxiety: test irrelevant thinking the tendency for the mind to wander when it is difficult to concentrate, sense of self as deficient - unable to control things. To seek clinical intervention: anxiety must be chronic, relatively intense, associated w/ role impairment, cause significant distress for self or others. The propensity to perceive threat and to be concerned and worried when there is no objective threat or the situation is ambiguous. Anxiety disorders are diagnosed when subjectively experienced feelings of anxiety are present. Separation anxiety not having contact or possibility of losing contact w/ attachment figures. Disrupting, fear mediated avoidance that is out of proportion to the danger posed and recognized by the sufferer as groundless. Extreme fear of heights, closed spaces, snakes, or spiders provided there is no objective danger.
