Flashcards in Module 48 Deck (9)
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Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Persistent and uncontrollable tenseness and apprehension, autonomic arousal, and unable to identify or avoid the cause of their feelings.
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Panic Disorder
Minute-long episodes of intense dread which may include feelings of terror, chest pains, choking or other frightening sensations. Most think they are heaving a heart attack.
WOMEN are twice as likely to have this disorder.
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Phobias
Marked by a persistent and irrational fear of an object or situation that disrupts behavior.
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Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
Persistence of unwanted thoughts (obsessions) and urge to engage in senseless rituals or actions (compulsions) that cause distress.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Four or more weeks of the following symptoms:
Haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, sleep problems.
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Psychoanalytic Perspective
Freud suggested that we repress our painful intolerable, ideas, feelings, and thoughts resulting in anxiety.
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Learning Theorists
suggest that fear conditioning leads to anxiety. This anxiety then gets associated with other objects or events and gets reinforced.
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Learning Perspective
Fear responses, investigators believe, are in calculated through observational learning. Young monkeys develop fear when they watch other monkeys fear snakes.
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