PSYCH 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Chest Pain, Locus Coeruleus, Social Skills
28 Feb 2017
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Natural human emotion in response to danger. Adaptive to humans over time: anxiety: Avoidance: we avoid what we fear. Can"t learn new things: we also avoid. Bodily sensations: trying to avoid internal experiences doesn"t work when we want it to most. Most common disorders in the u. s: 18% of adults in any given year, 29% lifetime prevalence. Is not under anxiety disorder anymore; rather it is in its own label. Characterized by excessive chronic worry: more than 6 months, 2+ areas. Can be school work, relationships to other people, health: hard to stop. Hard to shift one"s attention to something since it always seems to come back. Explanations: different models offer different explanations for gad, sociocultural model. These are chronic stressors which makes it more likely that someone will develop gad. There"s no causal evidence but there"s a correlation between these things that can trigger the gad: cognitive perspective.
