Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Acute Stress Reaction, Roméo Dallaire, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
18 Oct 2013
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Fear and anxiety adaptive emotions, major symptom. Threatening situation that is in the environment. Ex: project due in a week and you"re feeling anxious, its running through your mind. Fear is the emotions that let us avoid dangerous situations. Motivate us to get along with others. Autonomic arousal fight-flight response activation of the synesthetic nervous system. Increased hr, bp, gsr (sweating response), muscle tension. Decreased gastric activity- activity is moved away to this and goes to larger muscles. Experiential aspects- subjective feelings, fear panic, irritable, easily angered, tense. Cognitive symptoms- affects way we think- cause us to be anxious. Excessive thoughts, very vigilant, very focused that they"re most fearful of and don"t notice other things. Evolutionary basis of anxiety genetic variability, have to find a fine balance of anxiety you don"t want too little or too much. People differ in their tendency to become anxious. Anxiety disorders are the most common group of mental disorders.
