PSY 395 Lecture 8: 395-8
14 Feb 2020
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Fear: basic emotion, brief discrete, response to imminent threat, intense. Anxiety: anticipatory, long/chronic, response to future threat. Stressors: get good grades, look good, t in socially, be good at sport (high school top 4 stressors ) Overview of the anxiety disorders and their commonalities. Anxiety disorders: unrealistic, irrational fears or anxieties, cause signi cant distress and/or impairments, high comorbidity between anxiety disorders. Speci c phobia: afraid of speci c things (clown) Social anxiety disorder (social phobia): afraid social contacting with others. Neuroticism: ocean tendency toward unstable emotions, high level of personality traits. Increased readiness to report symptoms-changing attitudes and awareness of mental health problems. Growing up in an environment of volatility (e. g. , schools have lockdowns, mass shootings, etc) Social media: compare and despair , constant access to digital devices= limited abilities to tolerate anxiety. Triggered by a speci c object or situation. Avoidance of trigger is the cardinal characteristic. Subtypes identi ed in dsm-5: animal, natural environment (thunder, blood-injection-injury.
