01:830:340 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychopathology, Blood Test, Structured Interview
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Fear response - cardiovascular, cortical, emotional response is terror, motivation for action. Different from mood or affect - emotion, mood, affect. Anger, as opposed to stress, or exercise > less efficient heart-pumping. Hostility > premature death, may be linked to inflammation associated with overactive immune system and clogged arteries. > not directly, but overtime, if you have that physiological profile. Experiencing emotions out of proportion or at the wrong time > psychopathology. What we fear is culturally dependent, many cultures suffer from fright disorders . Gender - related to cultural expectations, influence across several dimensions - type and prevalence of fears, fear behaviors, responses, coping strategies. Low social contacts - higher mortality, higher psychopathology, lower life expectancy. Mediated by quality and perception of loneliness. Expression of distress often viewed as weak. Helps maintain the cycle of pathology - no tx. Assessment - a process of gathering information about an individual"s symptoms for the purposes of:
