PSYB32H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing, Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cognitive Restructuring

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Chapter 6: anxiety, obsessive compulsive, and post traumatic stress disorders. Anxiety and ptsd in post secondary students. What is anxiety: an unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension. Two components of anxiety: physiological and cognitive, the physiological component of anxiety consists of heightened levels of arousal and physiological activation. An example of this would be higher heart rate: the cognitive component of anxiety consists of the subjective perception of the anxious arousal and associated cognitive processes. An example of this would be feelings of worry: in terms of worrying, emphasis is placed on the future. Anxiety in students: most common forms of anxiety in students include test anxiety and test irrelevant thinking, students with test anxiety are highly critical of themselves, thus have negative thoughts about themselves during the testing period. When does anxiety become a problem: chronic, relatively intense, role impairment, significant distress to the self or others.

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