PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Social Anxiety Disorder, Specific Phobia, Anxiety Disorder
21 Jun 2020
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Tendency to be agitated, distressed, and cry in unfamiliar or novel settings. Predicts anxiety in childhood and social anxiety in adolescence. Higher levels linked to double the likelihood of developing anxiety disorders. Belief that one lacks control over environment. Unwarranted, excessive fear of specific object or situation. Most specific phobias cluster around a few feared objects and situations. Trigger or feared object is avoided or endured with intense anxiety. Direct conditioning/vicarious learning- behavioral reinterpretation of hans; limitations of direct conditioning model. Evolutionary/preparedness model- evolutionary advantage; animal models of phobia acquisition. Pairing of stimulus with aversive ucs leads to fear (classical conditioning) Avoidance maintained through negative reinforcement (operant conditioning) Biological preparedness for rapid conditioning to certain types of stimuli. Prepared template for fear conditioning- 1 trail learning . True alarm= actual traumatic experience; fight or flight reaction to a threatening stimulus. Called social phobia in prior editions of dsm. Causes more life distribution than other phobias.
