PSYC 1010 Lecture : Psych 1010March 1 2012.docx

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1010
• Professor: Rebecca Jubis

Document Summary

Neurotic disorders involve feelings of anxiety or distress. Stress anxiety is in proportion to the stressor therefore once stressor is removed anxiety decreases a)generalize anxiety disorder: chronic always feeling this way. Unsettled not in response to a stimulus (free float anxiety) Strong physiological responses (trembling, breathing) b)phobic disorders: feel anxiety to very specific things. Social phobias: fear being neg. evaluated, public speaking c)panic disorder and agoraphobia (fear of leaving the house, open spaces): Agoraphobia once believed to be a simple phobia but more compex therefore connected with panic disorder. There are physiological responses: obsessive compulsive disorder (ocd): A) obsession-recurrent involuntary though or mental image therefore intruding with other mental processes and this thought tends to create anxiety. Obsessive compulsive personality disorders: high degree of rigidity and organization e)post-traumatic stress disorder: **short answer test 4: fall somewhere between psychological and medical disorders and refer to physical symptoms that have no physiological basis.