PSY BEH 102C Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Panic Attack, Panic Disorder, Generalized Anxiety Disorder
1 Apr 2017
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Panic attacks: fear in an inappropriate time. Panic attacks: abrupt episodes of intense fear, expected or unexpected. Detects danger systems and threat: behavioral inhibition system. Activated in unexpected events and danger signaling: overactivation of the fight/flight system. Tobacco (nicotine) can increase biological vulnerability to. Psychological contributions anxiety disorders: realizing in childhood that we are not in control of many events. Sense of uncontrollability that persists throughout life: parents who respond in a positive and predictable way have children with less vulnerability to anxiety. Teach kids they have control: conditionings. Social contributions: stressful life events social and interpersonal, particular ways we react to stress are learned by others around us. Triple vulnerability theory: generalized biological vulnerability, generalized psychological vulnerability. Less coping strategies: specific psychological vulnerability. Learning from early age from others that certain things are dangerous. Disorders often co-occur: many co-occur with anxiety. Differ in what triggers the anxiety and the patternings.
