Summary: Abnormal Psychology Chapter 5 (First Part)

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• Anxiety is characterized by a wide range of symptoms that cut across what domains?

  a. physical features
  b. behavioral features
  c. cognitive features

• agoraphobia (panic disorder)

  excessive, irrational fear of open or public places

• to have agoraphobia a person must have experienced..

  repeated, unexpected panic attacks, and at least one of the attacks must be followed by one of the following:
  at least a month of persistent fear of subsequent attacks,
  worry about the implications or consequences of the attack,
  significant change in behavior.

• Theoretical perspetives - the prevailing view of panic disorder reflects a combination of..

  cognitive and biological factors of misattributions of underlying causes on the one hand and physiological reactions on the other

• perceiving bodily sensations as dire threats induces..

  anxiety, which is accompanied by activation of the sympathetic nervous system.

• evidence suggests that genetic factors are at work

  in explaining proneness to panic disorder

• suffocation false alarm theory

  psychiatrist donald klein proposed a variation of the alarm model (not actually having a heart attack or anything just having anxiety)

• president franklin roosevelt said i his 1932 inaugural address...

  we have nothing to fear but fear itself

• treatment approaches - most widely used forms of treatment for panic disorder are..

  drug therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy. Drugs commonly used to treat depression, called antidepressant drugs, also have antianxiety and antipanic effects

• a potential problem with drug therapy is that..

  patients may attribute clinical improvement to the drugs and not their own resources.