Emotion
Emotion is comprised of 3 states or responses...
What is a physiological Response, a behavioral response, and a conscious thought and/or feeling?
This term refers to the process of appraising and responding to events which we consider threatening or challenging
The scientific study of the origins, symptoms, and development of psychological disorders
What is psychopathology?
Characterized by a global, persistent, chronic, excessive state of apprehension, excessive anticipation interferes with concentration
What is GAD?
Significant and persistent disruptions in mood or emotions that cause impaired cognitive, behavioral, and physical functioning
What is a mood disorder?
The functions of emotions...
Can emotions be a trigger of motivated behaviors, contribute to rational decision making and purposeful behavior, help in understanding and maintenance of relationships, or reflect evolutionary adaptation to the problems of survival and reproduction?
4 types of stressors.
What are catastrophes, significant events/life changes, social/cultural stressors, and daily hassles
Evolution, Individual genes, and Brain structures and chemistry influences on disorders
What are biological influences?
Characterized by unpredictable, minutes-long episodes of intense dread
What is panic disorder?
Characterized by as person alternating between the despondency and lethargy of depression and a state of extreme euphoria, excitement, physical energy, wild optimism, and rapid thoughts and speech
What is bipolar disorder?
Facial Feedback Hypothesis is a theory of emotion.
Emotional expression leads to emotional experiences
Physiological response that is a rapidly occurring chain of internal physical reactions that prepare people to either fight or take flight from an immediate threat.
What is the acute stress pathway?
Stress, Trauma, learned helplessness, and mood-related perceptions and memories in disorders
What are psychological influences?
Characterized by unwanted repetitive thoughts and urges to perform certain actions, 2 specific components
What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and obsessions and compulsions?
Characterized by extreme and persistent feelings of despondency, worthlessness, and hopelessness, combined with lethargy and a lack of interest in and enjoyment of most activities
What is major depressive disorder?
Emotion and the two track brain comes from the cognitive appraisal theory and has 2 main roads.
Speedy Low Road: fear stimulus -> thalamus -> amygdala -> fear response
Thinking High Road: fear stimulus -> thalamus -> Sensory cortex -> prefrontal cortex -> amygdala -> fear response
Our stress response system defends us, then fatigues all in 3 stages.
General Adaptation Syndrome
Roles, Expectations, Definition of normality and disorder in disorders
Characterized by haunting memories nightmares social withdrawal, and jumpy anxiety
PTSD
Disorder affects all genders equally, has sudden onset with no clear triggering event, and the first episode is usually in young adulthood
What is bipolar disorder?
Three main theories of emotions.
James-Lange Theory: Our experience of emotion is our awareness of our physiological responses to emotion-arousing stimuli
Cannon-Bard Theory: Am emotion-arousing stimulus simultaneously triggers physiological responses and the subjective experience of emotion
Schachter-Singer Two-Factor Theory: To experience emotion one must be physically aroused and cognitively label the arousal
The 2 ways in which we try to change or reinterpret circumstance to make them less threatening
What is problem-focused and emotion-focused coping?
The purpose of classifying psychological disorders...
to describe a disorder, predict its course, imply appropriate treatment, stimulate research into causes
Prevalence of anxiety disorders.
What is a typical onset of 11 years?
Disorder diagnosed when symptoms are severe and distressful and interfere with daily functioning.
What is PTSD?