PSY240H1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Puranas, Eating Disorder
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Anxiety disorders have many similar symptoms and presentations. Freud (1895): neurotic anxiety is signal to ego that unacceptable drive is pressing for conscious representation & need to take defensive action (i. e. , anxiety occurs because defense mechanism failed to repress painful memories, impulses, or thoughts) Mowrer (1947) two-factor theory: fears develop from classical conditioning and maintain through operant conditioning, but doesn"t account for all fears (e. g. , vicarious learning, hearing fear-relevant information, biological preparedness) Beck (1985) cognitive model: fear stems from biased perceptions of the world (dangerous), future (uncertain), and themselves (ill-equipped), selectively attending to and recalling information consistent with vulnerable self-schema and ignore information that is contradictory to presence of objective danger. Costly in terms of treatment and lost productivity. Without treatment, ads tend to be chronic and recurrent, associated with significant distress and suffering, impairing individuals across multiple domains of functioning and reducing qol. Multi-method assessment includes clinical interview, behavioural measurement, psychophysiological tests, and self-report indices.
