Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack, Panic Disorder
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Psychology 2030a chapter 4 lecture 3. Common emotion worry: physical symptoms, future-oriented thoughts, escape or avoidance behaviours, occurs when people encounter a new situation or anticipate life-changing event, usually time-limited and ends when event is over, cognitive symptoms subjective distress. Two classical behavioural symptoms of anxiety: fearing a situation, avoiding the situation. Behavioural therapy reduces pattern of negative reinforcement that maintains avoidance behaviour: if i avoid an exam, my anxiety goes away, so i"ll keep avoiding exams therapy stops reinforcements like this. Activation of sns triggered by fear or stress. Sympathetic nervous system (sns) increases heart rate + respiration: called fight-or-flight response . Parasympathetic nervous system (pns) slows down heart rate + respiration. For abnormal, must consider: functional impairment, sociodemographic factors (sex, race, socioeconomic status) E. g. people with stressful jobs are naturally likely to be more anxious, their anxiety fits context: developmental age. E. g. not unusual for young children to have stranger anxiety .