PSYC 3220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Separation Anxiety Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder
19 Dec 2013
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Definition of fear: normal adaptive response to danger in the environment. Mostly fear of novelty (new people, new food; peak around age 8; around age 10 these. Fear is normative starting in childhood fears decline) Infants exhibit separate anxiety once they have identified preferred caregiver. Pre-school fear shift to imagery things (ex. ghost, monsters, dinosaurs) School age fears are more about real events (ex. injury, physical danger) Adolescence abstract and socially motivated (ex. being judged, failing, fear of war) Transitional objects (ex. blanket) to cope with their fears. Anxiety disorder a failure in adaptive response; different from normative fears due to their intensity, maladaptiveness, persistence (across multiple environment and time), voluntary control (less control over their sense of fear) Anxiety responses: behavioural response (ex. crying, hiding, covering eyes) the behaviours we can see, physiological response (fight or flight response, cognitive response (in adolescence) both adaptive and maladaptive.
