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Module 50 + 51
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Threat Imminence Model | No threat (taking in surroundings, looking actively for threats) => Threat potential => Threat Detected => Threat Contact (fear takes over system- no constant stream of thought, instinctual survival) |
| Neuroticism | tendency to experience negative arousal |
| Emotional regulation | difficulty returning to baseline after arousal |
| GAD: Generalized Anxiety Disorder | Symptoms: emotional-cognitive (worrying, anxious feelings + thoughts, anxiety w/ no attachment) and physical (autonomic arousal- trembling, sweating, fidgeting, agitation, sleep disruption) |
| Panic Attack | many minutes of intense dread or terror; chest pain, chocking, hyperventilating, dizziness, racing heart (feels like a heart attack); feeling a need to attack |
| Panic Disorder | repeated and unexpected panic attacks (fear of next attack + change of behavior to avoid panic attacks) |
| Specific Phobia | uncontrollable, irrational, intense desire to avoid some object/situation/object of phobia |
| Prepared Fears | Phobias and fears tend to cluster around: animals, blood/injury, natural environment, situational |
| Obsessions | intense, unwanted worries, ideas, and images that repeatedly pop in the mind |
| Compulsion | repeatedly strong feeling of "needing" to carry out an action, eventhough it doesn't feel like it makes sense (eg. checking the stove multiple times to see if it is off, or checking keys door) |
| Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) | (burned-in memories): repeated intrusive recall of those memories, nightmares/re-experiencing, social withdrawal/phobic avoidance, jumping anxiety/hypervigilance, insomnia/sleep problems, constant alert for danger |
| Five Perspectives of Anxiety Disorders | classical conditioning, operant conditioning, observational learning, cognitive and evolutionary |
| classical conditioning: | overgeneralizing a conditioned response |
| operant conditioning | rewarding avoidance |
| observational learning | worrying like mom (if you see someone else avoiding/fearing some object/creature, you might pick up the fear and adopt it) |
| cognition | uncertainty is danger; worried thoughts/interpretations/appraisals/beliefs/predictions/ruminations; hypervigilance (persistently watching out for d |
| evolutionary | surviving by avoiding danger |
| Stress generation | the depressed mood changes a person's styles of thinking and interacting in a way that makes a stressful experience more likely |
| Mania | hyper-elevated mood that is euphoric, giddy, easily irritated hyperactive, impulsive, overly optimistic, and even grandiose; little desire for sleep |
| hypomania | 3-4 days (mania = 1 wk), less functional impairment, still observable |
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mariaramos2012
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