PSYB32H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter chapter 6: Catechol-O-Methyl Transferase, Cholecystokinin, Depersonalization
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Chapter 6 anxiety, obsessive-compulsive, and post-traumatic stress disorder. Physiology: the heightened arousal and physiological activation (eg: higher heart rate) Cognitive: the subjective perception of the arousal and the associated cognitive processes (eg: worry and rumination) For example: student might have test anxiety: physiological component, cognitive component, test- irrelevant thinking: the tendency for the mind to wander when it is difficult to concentrate. The anxiety that requires clinical intervention must be chronic, relatively intense, associated with role impairment, and causing significant distress for self or others. Anxiety disorder: diagnosed when subjectively experienced feelings of anxiety are clearly present: the most common psychological disorder, more common in women than in men across all age groups. Separation anxiety: the anxiety that results from not having contact or the possibility of losing contact with attachment figures. Phobias: a disrupting, fear-mediated avoidance that is out of proportion to the danger actually posed and is recognized by the sufferer as groundless.
