PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Gaba Receptor Agonist, Depersonalization, Benzodiazepine
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Not all psychologists agree on what types of emotions there are. Emotions either motivate you towards, or away from stimuli: they help you prioritize tasks makes you more efficient. Emotions are adaptive: you can change according to different situations, everything in our environment changes if you cannot adapt to the changes in your environment, this is a psychopathology in and of itself. People think of anxiety as a negative emotion. People strive to be happy all the time a positive emotion: however, people who are happy all the time is also a psychopathology. Do things that will make them happy and are happy no matter what the consequence. #1 environmental contributor to psychopathology = stress. Anxiety is the most common form of psychopathology: anxiety is an emotion, found a part of the brain that generates this emotion. Anxiety is an unpleasant emotional state ranging from mild unease to intense fear.
