PSYB32H3 Midterm: PSYB32 MIDTERM 2 CHAPTER NOTES *Ch6-8,10,14*
12 Nov 2011
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Chapter 6: anxiety disorders: anxiety is an unpleasant feeling of fear and apprehension, it can occur in many psychopathologies, an anxiety disorder is diagnosed when feelings of anxiety are clearly present, dsm proposes 6 categories, phobias, panic disorder. Fear & avoidance of objects or situations that do not present any real danger. Experience of uncontrollable thoughts, impulses, or images (obsessions) and repetitive behaviours or mental acts (compulsions: posttraumatic stress disorder. Aftermath of traumatic experience in which the person experiences increased arousal, avoidance of stimuli associated with the event, and anxiety in recalling the event: acute stress disorder. 1: specific phobia: unwarranted fears caused by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or, dsm-iv subdivides these phobias according to the source of the fear. These fears were then classified under the 2 higher-order categories specific & social fears: specific fear focused on in a phobia can vary cross culturally, pa-leng: fear of the cold.
