PSYC 2011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Agoraphobia, Frontal Lobe, Twin Study
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Irritability (common with children: cause stress and impairments, not caused by other disorder or medical condition, don"t usually have panic attacks, focused more on external threat, obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd, not the same as obsessive-compulsive personality, personality is ego-syntonic. Inability to remember: diminished interest, negative mood, detachment, alterations in arousal and reactive association evidenced by: Irritable behavior and angry outbursts (verbal/physical aggression: reckless or self-destructive, hypervigilance, exaggerated startle response, problems with concentration, sleep disturbance, depersonalization or derealization. Irritability: shyness, fearfulness, overcautiousness, physical feelings of anxiety, work in combination with biological and emotional, often withdraw from unfamiliar or new stimuli, evolution, biologically prepared for fearful stimuli, social anxiety serves to preserve social order, cognitive risk factors. Assume way they feeling is how things really are. Connect how we feel to how we act, we think bad things so are back person. Gets bitten by dogs = fear all dogs.
