Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Psycho Surgery, Muscle Dysmorphia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Chapter 4: anxiety, obsessive compulsive and trauma and stressor related. Anxiety is a common emotion that is characterized by physical symptoms and thoughts or worries that something bad will happen. Anxiety is a future oriented response and often occurs when people encounter a new situation, or anticipate a life changing event. Your hypothalamus sends a message to your adrenal glands to release the hormone adrenaline. Your (cid:271)ody"s response is called fight or flight was a general discharge of your sympathetic nervous system (sns) Your (cid:271)ody"s (cid:374)er(cid:448)ous syste(cid:373) (cid:272)o(cid:374)sists of t(cid:449)o parts: the central nervous system (includes your brain and spinal cord, the peripheral nervous system (consists of all other nerves in the body) Peripheral nervous system is further broken down into two parts: the somatic sensory system (contains sensory and voluntary motor functions, the automatic nervous system (controls involuntary movements) The automatic nervous system also has two elements: sympathetic nervous system, parasympathetic nervous system.