PSYC 1000 Study Guide - Fall 2018, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Twin, Operant Conditioning, Dsm-5
PSYC 1000
MIDTERM EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
Fall 2018
Psyc*1000*02
*Anxiety Disorders*
Anxiety Disorders (most common disorders we see)
• “A category of disorders involving fear or nervousness that is excessive, irrational, and maladaptive.”
- Frequency and intensity of anxiety response is out of proportion to the situation
• Duration, degree, and source (words they use in the textbook but same thing as above)
- Anxiety interferes with daily life
Four Components of The Anxiety Response
• Emotional Symtoms
- Feelings of tension (feel mostly this)
- Apprehension
• Cognitive Symptoms (the things you think about)
- Worry
- Thoughts about inability to cope (typical thought)
• Physiological Symptoms (primary for anxiety disorders)
- Increased heart rate
- Muscle tension
- Other autonomic arousal symptoms
- (Symptoms that seem more problematic to them, what they report the most)
• Behavioural Symptoms (what they do in response to anxiety)
- Avoidance of feared situations
- Decreased task performance
- Increased startle response
Panic Disorder
• Most people have had a panic attack
• Panic disorder only develops when you start to fear having a panic attack
Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• You have this intense feeling of anxiety all of the time (you don't know what this feeling is)
• Starts to limit your life
• Is maladaptive
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• Most common of all the anxiety disorders
• It has to be long term to meet the diagnosis
• Anticipate that something is going to go wrong and become ‘vigilant’ of the environment
Psyc*1000*02
*Anxiety Disorders*
Phobias
• Fear of a specific thing
• Moore likely to have phobias of things that can really happen
• However less likely to develop a phobia of things from modern day(i.e. afraid of spiders but not guns)
• Source of anxiety is very clear
• Level of which ca be disruptive depends on life circumstances
• ‘agoraphobia’ is fear of fear and you end up not being able to leave their house and sometimes not
being able to leave your own neighbourhood
• Get a job where you can work from home to world around this
• ‘Social anxiety disorder’ fear of what other people think of you, and you end up avoiding people
• If you have a fear of embarrassing yourself you are more likely to blurt out things that are out of the
ordinary
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
• You have a particular thought that makes you act in a particular way
• Popular form is obsessive about germs so you end up washing your hands 100 times a day which can
disrupt your day
• Another common obsession is that you feel like you may hurt someone, so you do things that reduce the
thoughts which reduces the anxiety that they are feeling
• Can come really maladaptive really quickly
• Moved out of anxiety disorders and is its own disorder
• Obsessions are cognitive, compulsions are behavioural
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• You can pin point what is making you anxious (common with people coming home from war)
• One the trauma has past you are continually reliving it
• Most people who experience a traumatic event don't adapt this
• Has its own section (moved away from anxiety disorders)
Understanding Anxiety Disorders: Psychological Factors
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Document Summary
Anxiety disorders (most common disorders we see: a category of disorders involving fear or nervousness that is excessive, irrational, and maladaptive. Frequency and intensity of anxiety response is out of proportion to the situation: duration, degree, and source (words they use in the textbook but same thing as above) Four components of the anxiety response: emotional symtoms. Apprehension: cognitive symptoms (the things you think about) Thoughts about inability to cope (typical thought: physiological symptoms (primary for anxiety disorders) (symptoms that seem more problematic to them, what they report the most: behavioural symptoms (what they do in response to anxiety) Panic disorder: most people have had a panic attack, panic disorder only develops when you start to fear having a panic attack. Understanding anxiety disorders: psychological factors: cognitive explanations. Things are appraised catastrophically": learning explanations and social explanations. Some disorders are culturally bound: fear of offending someone, fear of being possessed, fear of being fat.
