PSYC 235 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Panic Attack, Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
13 May 2017
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Emotion implicated so heavily across the full range of psychopathology. Panic is fear that occurs, perhaps at an inappropriate time. Anxiety is a negative mood state characterized by bodily symptoms of physical tension and apprehension about the future. Hard to study because of subjective pov. Much research has been done with animals: ex. Teaching lab rats that light means impending shock and so when it is turned on, they look and act anxious. Good for you in moderate amounts we perform better when a little anxious. When you have too much anxiety: concentration goes down, sick feeling in stomach etc. Most people know they have little to fear in those situations, but cannot seem to shake those feelings. Fear is an immediate alarm reaction to danger: can be good because it protects us with response by ans that can motivate us to escape or attack.
