PSY340H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Systematic Desensitization, Social Skills, Prospective Memory
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Anxiety is regarded as having 2 distinguishable components: physiological. Heightened level of arousal and physiological activation. Heightened arousal and tension reflected by symptoms such as heart rate: cognitive. Associated cognitive processes with anxious arousals eg. worry and rumination. Anxiety tends to be future-focused: emphasis on things that could happen. Anxiety must be: chronic, relatively intense, associated with role impairment, causing significant distress. Phobia: disrupting, fear-mediated avoidance that is out of proportion to the danger actually posed and is recognized by the sufferer as groundless. phobia usually implies person suffers intense distress and social/occupational impairment because of the anxiety. Unwarranted fears caused by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation. Phobias are subdivided into their source of fear: blood injuries and injections, situations, animals, natural environment. Fear can be grouped into 1 of 5 factors (types: agoraphobia, fear of heights or water, threat fears, fears of being observed, speaking fears.
