PSYC 1000 Study Guide - Mania, Explanatory Style, Learned Helplessness
8 Apr 2013
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Nov 22, 2012: a) what are anxiety disorders? cluster of disorders characterized by excessive worrying about future events that typically brings people to avoid certain situations. Activation of the autonomic system inability to identify cause of anxiety (free-floating fear) More than just a strong fear or dislike specific phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, intense desire to avoid certain situations, people or objects. Obsessions are intense unwanted worries, ideas and images that repeatedly pop up in the mind. A compulsion is a repeatedly strong feeling of needing to carry out an action (doesn"t make sense) distress: deeply frustrated with not being able to control behaviours. Understanding anxiety disorders- psychological factors conditioning and learning cognitivie appraisal. Maintain anxious responses results in increase in anxious thoughts and behavior. Anxiety can be acquired thru observational learning. Even after original scared person is not around. Cluster of disorders for which a disturbance of the person"s mood is assumed to be the underlying cause.
