Conditioning and Learning/ Cognitive Factors and Stress
OCD/PTSD
Biological Factors
Phobic/Panic Disorders
100
How are many anxiety responses acquired?
What is classical conditioning
100
Actions that one feels forced to carry out?
What is a compulsion
100
Anxiety sensitivity may fuel an inflationary spiral in which anxiety breeds more anxiety which eventually spins out of control
What is Anxiety disorder
100
The fear of going out to public places.
What is agoraphobic.
200
How are many anxiety responses are maintained?
What is operant conditioning
200
An anxiety disorder that occurs when a person has been exposed to traumatic events that causes them to experience distressing psychological symptoms that become disabling?
What is Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
200
What is developed out of complicated interactions among a variety of biological and psychological factors?
Anxiety Disorders
200
Trembling and palpitations.
What is physical symptoms of a phobic disorder.
300
What type of learning can cause phobias and anxiety simply from watching anothers behaviour?
What is observational learning
300
A person is exposed to their obsessional fears and learns to work through their anxiety in a healthier way?
What is Cognitive Behaviour Therapy
300
What studies suggest that there is a moderate genetic predisposition to anxiety disorders
Twin Studies
300
Three common phobias.
What is acrophobia (fear of heights), claustrophobia (fear of small, enclosed spaces), brontophobia (fear of storms)
hydrophobia (fear of water) and a variety of animal and insect phobias. Any of the above.
400
What is anxiety highly related to?
What is Stress
400
Almost ______ of New Orleans residents were estimated to be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.
What is 1/2
400
complicated interactions among a variety of biological and psychological factors.
How anxiety disorders develop
400
Characterized by recurrent attacks of overwhelming anxiety that usually occur suddenly and unexpectedly.
What is a panic attack.
500
What is a person most likely to do once they have acquired a fear?
What is avoidance
500
________ are more prevalent to suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder.
What is women
500
Indicates the percentage of twin pairs or other pairs of relatives who exhibit the same disorder
What is concordance rate
500
When does the onset of panic disorder usually occur?