Anxiety Disorders
An intense and/or irrational fear of a specific object or situation.
Ex. Fear of flying
A Phobia
Factors and reasons that cause the body to go into fight or flight mode.
Stress
Give a way to help manage anxiety
This specialized cell fires electrical impulses
Neuron
This hormone is released during fight or flight to get us moving
Adrenaline
A sudden attack of intense dread
Panic disorder/attack
This type of stress is bad stress which we want to avoid.
Debilitating / Distress
This book is the manual of psychological disorders and treatments
DSM-5
The Central Nervous system is made up of the Brain and ____
Spinal cord
This lobe of the brain is needed for vision processing
Occipital lobe
Characterized by haunting memories, nightmares, social withdrawal, jumpy anxiety, numbness of feeling, and/or insomnia that lingers for four weeks or more after a traumatic experience
PTSD
Name the 3 stages of General Adapataion Syndrome or Fight or Flight. Must get all 3
Alarm, Resistance, Exhaustion
Name a Neurodevelopmental disorder
Autism, ADHD, Specific Learning disorder, Tourettes
This happens during conditioning when an actions isn't reinforced so the conditioning goes away. It can be recovered.
Extinction
This bundle of nerve cells connects the right and left parts of the brain
corpus collosum
Disorder that involves unwanted repetitive thoughts that then lead to actions, which then often lead back to repetitive thoughts
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder or OCD
Personal strength that comes from growth and recovery. It can take time
Resilience
This perspective theory says that disorder stem from issue in society
Sociocultural perspective
This type of Amnesia is where people cannot recall their past but can make new memories.
A. Anterograde
B. Retrograde
B. Retrograde
Working memory lasts about ____ before it begins to fade away.
20 seconds
Development of severe anxiety, dissociative or other symptoms after a trauma stressor similar to PSTD.
Acute Stress Disorder
This is good stress, motivating stress like when you are warming up for a game.
Eustress
Theory that mental and physical disorders develop from a genetic or biological predisposition
Diathesis Stress
This part of the brainstem control all automatic functions like breathing and heartbeats. Can't live without it
Medulla
This law says that Optimal level of arousal necessary to perform tasks need to be moderate level tasks
Yerkes Dodson law