Anxiety disorders

Question 1

Fear

Answer 1

Can be triggered by real and imagined stimuli due to complex brain, not always adaptive (functional)

Question 2

Hypervigilance

Answer 2

Hightened attention to potential threat, seen in anxiety disorders (might be predisposing cause)

Question 3

Phobia

Answer 3

Know it is irrational, but feel extreme fear. Hypervigilance towards it but take their eyes off faster than others.

Question 4

Prepared fear

Answer 4

More inclined to create fear of things that are evolutionarily threatening. Like snakes

Question 5

Panic disorder

Answer 5

Panic attack followed by intense fear of having another panic attack

Question 6

Agoraphobia

Answer 6

intense fear of public places, partly because embarrassment of panicking in front of other

Question 7

Brain areas and OCD

Answer 7

Frontal lobe and basal ganglia, don’t give the normal response of closure so feel the need to do it again and again. Also bc of lack of executive functioning

Question 8

PTSD 3 main components

Answer 8

Re-experiencing ; Dreaming/flashback
Heightened arousal; Sleepless, irritable, exaggerated startle response
Avoidance; anything that reminds/social withdrawal.