PSYC 3140 Chapter 5: Abnormal Psychology Textbook Notes Chapter 5
7 Feb 2018
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Chapter five anxiety, trauma-related and obsessive-compulsive disorders. Like anxiety, fear, can be good for us. If you know you are afraid of high places, you might have a panic attack in such a situation but not anywhere else; this is an expected (cued) panic attack. More common in specific phobias or social anxiety disorder: you might experience unexpected (uncued) panic attacks if you don"t have a clue when or where the next attack will occur. Instead, contributions from collections of genes in several areas on chromosomes make us vulnerable when certain psychological and social factors are in place: anxiety is associated with specific brain circuits and neurotransmitter systems, ex. Abnormal psychology chapter five textbook notes: the area of the brain most often associated with anxiety is the limbic system, which acts as a mediator between the brain stem and the cortex.
