Health Sciences 4091A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Anxiety Disorder
11 Dec 2016
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Chapter 2: an evolutionary approach to normal and pathological anxiety. Five alternative views of disorders that cannot adequately separate anxiety disorders from natural fears. Biological views currently dominate the study of anxiety in psychiatry. There is little reality in trying to pinpoint the exact gene responsible for a. Both normal and disordered fear/anxiety are associated with certain forms given mental illness of brain activity . thus making it indistinguishable anxiety disorder as this could be normal in certain situations. The sheer amount of anxiety/brain activity does not in itself indicate an. John watson presented (1878-1958) asserted that almost any learned, conditioned cue could become a source of intense anxiety, especially if it occurred during early childhood not supported today. Some intense fears, such as dental phobia, do stem from learned experiences. Yet most individually learned fears fit into evolutionary designed categories of threatening objects and situations. This view also lacks criteria to separate normal from disordered fear/anxiety.
