PSY 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Psychological Trauma, Anxiety Disorder, Classical Conditioning
29 Oct 2020
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Highly sensitive to criticism, can"t make decisions, dwells on past mistakes, worries constantly, inability to relax. Problem comes when it becomes so persistent and debilitating. Difficult relaxing, rapid heart rates, feel a state of doom that"s. Agoraphobia (fear of being in public) may develop as a consequence. Anxious, irrational reaction to an object or event, leading to avoidance. Simple phobia intense irrational fear to a specific object. (more common in women) Social phobia an exaggerated fear of situation that invites public scrutiny. (more common in men) Most phobias are developed through classical conditioning. You can also develop fears by observational learning. The example of monkeys who had no fear and the ones who were afraid of snakes and the snake. Evolutionary standpoint: some fears make sense, and those fears helped survival. Constant obsessions intrusions into consciousness of persistent, often disturbing thoughts. Compulsions actions that person feels need to be carried out repeatedly.
