PSYC 4321 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Operant Conditioning, Antihistamine, Dsm-5
25 Feb 2017
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People become anxious in social situations and are afraid being rejected, judged, or humiliated in public and focused on avoiding such events. Develops in either the early preschool years or adolescence. Cognitive perspective - people with social anxiety disorder have: Have excessively high standards for their social performance. Focus on negative aspects of social interactions and evaluate their own behavior harshly. Identifying negative cognitions people have and learning how to dispute these cognitions. Panic attacks: short but intense periods during which people experience many symptoms of anxiety. People begin to worry about having these attacks and change behaviors as a result of this worry. People fear that they have a life-threatening illness. Hyperventilate or inhale a small amount of carbon dioxide. Ingest caffeine or take infusions of sodium lactate, People show dysregulation of norepinephrine systems in the locus ceruleus. Showing heightened reactivity to emotional stimuli in the amygdala. Focusing on detecting possible threats in the environment in unconscious cognitions.
