PS280 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Guided Imagery, Problem Solving, Debriefing
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Important theoretical distinctions between anxiety, fear, and panic. Anxiety an affective state whereby a person feels threatened by the potential occurrence of a future negative event: future oriented. Fear a more primitive emotion, occurs in response to a real or perceived current threat: present oriented, elicits a behavioural response known as fight or flight response . Fear prompts a person to either flee from a dangerous situation or stand and fight. Panic an extreme fear reaction that is triggered even though there is nothing to be afraid of. Until 1980, anxiety disorders were classified together with the somatoform and dissociative disorders under the heading neurosis. In the 1920s behaviourists like john b. watson began to consider fears and phobias in terms of conditioning models. Research conducted over the past few decades has greatly expanded our understanding of the nature of anxiety and its treatment.
