PSYC 300 Chapter 6: PSYC 300A Chapter 6 Notes
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Learning objectives: panic, anxiety, obsessions, and their disorders: 163-209. Anxiety disorders: involves a general feeling of apprehension about possible future danger. All have unrealistic, irrational fears or anxieties of disabling intensity as their principal and most obvious manifestation. Strong and persistent fear that is triggered by the presence of a speci c object or situation. Individuals will often show an immediate fear response that often resembles a panic attack. People will often go to great lengths to avoid said phobia. Claustrophobic person taking ights of stairs to avoid an elevator. Prevalence, age of onset, and gender differences: Animal phobias usually begin in childhood, as do blood-injection-injury and dental phobias. Other phobia (i. e. claustrophobia and driving phobias) tend to being in adolescence. Psychoanalytic viewpoint; phobias represent a defence against anxiety that stems from repressed impulses from the id. Anxiety is displaced onto some external object or situation. Phobias as learned behaviour; alternative to psychoanalytic accounts.
