PSYC 1030H Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attack, Neurotransmitter
3 Sep 2013
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Any behaviour or emotional state that causes an individual great suffering, is self-destructive, seriously impairs the person"s ability to work or get along with others, or endangers others or the community. Disorders that are specific to particular cultural contexts. Psychological tests used to infer a person"s motives, conflicts, and unconscious dynamics on the basis of the person"s interpretations of ambiguous stimuli. Inventories; standardized objective questionnaires requiring written responses; they typically include scales on which people are asked to rate themselves. Generalized anxiety disorder; a continuous state of anxiety marked by feelings of worry and dread, apprehension, difficulties in concentration, and signs of motor tension. A set of phobias, often set up by a panic attack, involving the basic fear of being away from a safe place or person. A mood disorder involving disturbances in emotion (excessive sadness), behaviour (loss of interest in one"s usual activities), cognition (thoughts of hopelessness), and body function (fatigue and loss of appetite).
