PSYCH101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Obsessive–Compulsive Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Stephanie Denison

Document Summary

People with generalized anxiety disorder give more attention to scary words like cancer or. Death and this could be a product of genetic development. Also, research shows that children who have had traumatic experiences in childhood likely to be hypervigilant. Cultural factors like instability in person"s life in terms of job could also be contributing factors. Most people who suffer from phobias can recall some traumatic experience where after they had the phobia. Also, some people who have phobias do not have experiences with the objects they have a phobia of, so evolution might contribute to phobia. Our forefathers were told to be fearful of things like snakes. People sometimes mistake physiological arousal for a catastrophic event and panic. One way to deal with this is to teach the victim that it is temporary and it will pass. Victims of ptsd must have experienced a traumatic experience in their life previously.