PSY 368 Lecture 12: Lecture 12 - Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome, Terrorism Catastrophizing Scale

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 368
• Professor: Adam Lazarewicz

Document Summary

Lecture outline #12: pre-traumatic stress syndrome, terrorism catastrophizing scale. Pre-traumatic stress syndrome last class (and this whole section): Widespread fear effects of terrorism, beyond ptsd diagnoses if terrorism warnings = vague, out of personal control: Zimbardo (2003): cognitive dissonance (live life normally vs. be vigilant) Dissonance more chronic fear, anxiety: (cid:498)pre-traumatic stress syndrome(cid:499) Anticipatory fear of future, rather than fear due to past trauma pre-traumatic stress syndrome: Previously no good way of assessing terrorism fears. Terrorism catastrophizing scale (tcs): measures degree to which people catastrophize when thinking about terrorism. 3 subscales of tcs: magnification: amplifying perceived risk of something negative happening, rumination: perseverating, dwelling on that risk, helplessness: no sense of control over that risk uses of tcs scores, allows assessment of ongoing, general fears of terrorism. Standardized measure we can compare samples to each other: evidence that terrorism-related fears often do not return to pre-attack levels.