Abnormal Behavior: Anxiety Disorders

Flashcards covering key vocabulary and concepts related to anxiety and panic disorders from the lecture notes.

Neuroticism

A common characteristic in anxiety disorders.

Graduated Exposure

A powerful treatment for anxiety disorders involving exposure to feared cues, objects, or situations.

Cognitive Restructuring

A treatment that can provide added benefit for certain anxiety disorders.

Specific Phobias Definition

Common, occurring in about 12% of people at some point in their lifetime.

Psychoanalytic Viewpoint on Phobias

Phobias represent a defense against anxiety from repressed id impulses.

Classical Conditioning and Phobias

A fear response can be conditioned to previously neutral stimuli when paired with traumatic events.

Vicarious Conditioning

Fear being transmitted from one person to another by watching a phobic person behaving fearfully.

Prepared Learning

Primates and humans are evolutionarily prepared to rapidly associate certain objects with frightening events.

Exposure Therapy

A behavior therapy that involves controlled exposure to stimuli or situations that elicit phobic fear.

Participant Modeling

The therapist calmly models ways of interacting with the phobic stimulus or situation.

Social Anxiety Disorder

A disorder characterized by anxiety in social situations.

Cognitive Restructuring (Social Anxiety)

Therapy technique to help clients identify and change negative automatic thoughts.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD)

Anxiety that results from an unconscious conflict between ego and id impulses.

Panic Disorder

Characterized by panic attacks.

Amygdala

Involved in the emotion of fear and part of a 'fear network'.

Hippocampus

Implicated in conditioned anxiety.

Cognitive Theory of Panic

People with panic disorder are hypersensitive to their bodily sensations and give them the most dire interpretation possible.

Anxiety Sensitivity

A trait-like belief that certain bodily symptoms may have harmful consequences.

Interoceptive Exposure

Deliberate exposure to feared internal sensations.

Panic Control Treatment (PCT)

Targets agoraphobic avoidance and panic attacks.

Ataque de Nervios

Experienced by Latin Americans from the Caribbean.

Koro

A culturally related syndrome in China and other Southeast Asian countries.