PSYC 3390 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Claustrophobia, Panic Disorder, Avoidant Personality Disorder

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3390
• Professor: Mary Manson

Document Summary

Fear and panic have three components like: cognitive and subjective; physiological; behavioural these components are only loosely coupled. Anxiety is a complex blend of unpleasant emotions an cognitions that is both more oriented to the future and much more diffuse than fear. Overview of the anxiety disorders and their commonalities. There are seven primary types of anxiety disorders: phobic disorders, panic disorder with or without agoraphobia, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder. Showing strong and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable and is triggered by the presence of a specific object or situation individuals often show an immediate fear response that often resembles a panic attack. This could have a specific purpose: by fainting, the person being attacked might inhibit further attack and if an attack did occur, the drop in blood pressure would minimalize blood lose. 12% of people have a specific phobia and among these people, over.